[Morten]

I am often surprised to hear the more, well, bitter reactions to Camus. As if he is famous and admired and revered for - what? - nothing? Writing light-hearted philosophy and a boring novel did not win him the Nobel Prize for literature...

Read The Plague or The Fall, two novels superior in maturity and scope to The Stranger, as well as his literary/philsophical essays The Myth of Sisyphus (brilliant) and The Rebel (brilliant-er).

There is a passion in Camus, a love of literature, that I find in myself and that I admire in him. He was a great humanist, didn't commit the political blunders that Sartre did, was his own man.