¹ National Liberation Front, the Algerian independentist organization. Camus also condemned the Melouza massacre: in May 1957, the FLN killed more than 300 villagers in Melouza on the pretext that they were supporters of the rival organization MNA, National Algerian Movement (28).

² He does not forget the religious minorities, notably the Jewish populations “caught for years between French Anti-Semitism and Arab distrust” (127).

³ Camus, Albert, Le Premier homme (Paris: Gallimard, 1994)Google Scholar.

⁴ As Arthur Goldhammer states in the translator’s note: “To mimic the French structure slavishly is to betray the spirit of the text” (XI).

⁵ He writes to Aziz Kessous in 1955: “Algeria is where I hurt at this moment, as others feel pain in their lungs.” (113) and Camus had turberculosis.

⁶ Saviano, Roberto, Gomorra (Milan: Mondadori, 2006)Google Scholar.

⁷ Camus, Albert, Lo Straniero, trans. Perroni, Sergio Claudio (Milan: Bompania, 2015)Google Scholar.