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The man of the title should be the father of Jacques Cormery, the main character of this story. But little is known of this immigrant, killed in the First World War, who married an illiterate woman from Menorca for barely the time necessary to have two children. The poor have no history. The real first man is the son: fatherless, raised in a sordid neighbourhood of Algiers by a strict grandmother who inflicted corporal punishments in front of a helpless mother, exhausted by her "work" in the houses of others. How did this destitute kid end up winning the Nobel Prize for Literature? This novel, that shows how the kid constructs himself slowly, in a completely different way to what was expected, would seem the story of Albert Camus' own childhood.

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Born in 1913 in Algeria, Albert Camus was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was deeply affected by the plight of the French during the Nazi occupation of World War II, who were subject to the military's arbitrary whims. He explored the existential human condition in such works as L'Etranger (The Outsider, 1942) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942), which propagated the philosophical notion of the "absurd" that was being given dramatic expression by other Theatre of the Absurd dramatists of the 1950s and 1960s.

Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960.

(Bowker Author Biography)