Camus, The First Man, the Last Book

Algerian writer Assia Djebar’s lecture on the publication of Camus’s final novel, Le Premier Homme, in April 1994. The unfinished manuscript of Camus’s novel was immediately recognized as his most raw and autobiographical reckoning with his Algerian identity. Djebar uses the event to speak out against the systemic oppression of the Algerians by the French, in this translation