Albert Camus - O Primeiro Homem

The unfinished manuscript of *The First Man* was discovered in the wreckage of the car accident that killed Albert Camus in 1960. Although it remained unpublished for over thirty years, it became an immediate bestseller when it was finally published in 1994.

The "first man" is Jacques Cormery, a boy who lives an unparalleled life. The French writer, Nobel laureate in Literature in 1957, evokes the landscape, sounds, and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and the death of a father, but redeemed by the austere beauty of Algiers, by the love Jacques has for his mother and grandmother, and by a teacher who will transform his worldview.

The most autobiographical of all Camus' novels – which he called his War and Peace and is himself Jacques Cormery – offers the reader a unique glimpse into the author's life and the powerful themes that run throughout his writing: the brilliant culmination of the life and work of one of the greatest novelists of the 20th century.