A visually arresting adaptation of Albert Camus's masterful
biographical novel that offers a new graphic interpretation for the next
generation of readers.
This new illustrated of Camus's final novel tells the story of Jacques
Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like Camus's own. This stunning,
fully illustrated edition summons up the sights, sounds and textures of
a childhood defined by poverty and a father's death, yet redeemed by the
austere beauty of Algeria--and the young protagonist's attachment to his
nearly deaf-mute mother.
In telling the story of his metaphorical search for his father, who died
in World War I, Camus returns to the "land of oblivion where each one is
the first man" and must find his own answers. Published thirty-five
years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car accident that
killed the Nobel Prize-winning novelist, this graphic interpretation of
The First Man is the brilliant consummation of the life and work of
one of the twenty century's greatest authors.