[Camus] “The meaning if my works: so many men are deprived of mercy. How to live without mercy? One must try and do what Christianity never did: to take care of the damned.

Lazareff believed that “a journalists first duty is to be read,” but Camus felt it was to tell the truth as much as possible, with as much style as possible. Camus saw “Lazareffism” as unacceptable...