A review by asdk1304
The First Man by Albert Camus

5.0

The First Man by Albert Camus has left me with a feeling that’s indescribable, a mix of sadness, impotence, and contemplation. It’s beautiful how Camus embarks this autobiographical novel initiating with his father’s death which, he laments from an abstracted point of view. Then, from a sorrow, he develops an introspection of what it felt like to live in a barren household where the food felt short and whose emptiness was filled by family love. This is, above all, a novel about humanity and how, in the places filled with distress, the people replace tragedy with kind acts of compassion.