They Came for Him

Jacques, the alter ego of Albert Camus, recreates the last years of his life. Well-known for his opposition to any form of violence, not only the death penalty, but also the terrorism which arose in his native country in reaction to the French colonial regime, he was also against the notion that ends justify means, which earned him the antipathy of the majority his contemporary intellectuals and repeated death threats. The Algerian author found himself haunted, as he confessed in his novel The First Man, by a nightmare which presented itself in a variety of forms, but with a recurrent theme: they came for him to kill him.