Born in 1913, Albert Camus was a force of nature. He grew up in a poor neighbourhood in Algiers with no father, a mute-deaf mother and a grandmother who beat him. And since the age of 17, he lived under the shadow of tuberculosis.

Camus was blessed in other ways, though, for he had the sea and words and a searing imagination. He went on to write The Myth of Sisyphus, The Stranger and The Plague, to serve in the French Resistance during WW2 and to win the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

This book will ask not attempt to explain Camus, but rather to think alongside him.

Through a sequence of questions, it will invite the reader to reconsider some fundamental assumptions they may have about truth, beauty and freedom.

1. Do I search for higher meaning?

2. Do I have faith in humans?

3. Can I maintain my consciousness?

4. Can I think for myself?

5. Is my mind a prisoner of my past?

6. Am I courageous?

7. Do I act when others don’t?

8. What should I do when I don’t know what to do?

9. How should I live in a digital age?