Published by Editions d'Avallon, the young author imagines life and the world if Albert Camus had not died in a car accident. She has taken the liberty of imagining that he was not dead, but in a coma from which he would not awaken until twenty years later, in a hospital in Russia - according to some theories, Camus' accident was the work of the KGB. This takes us back to the 1980s. Albert Camus was 67 at the time.
It took the author no less than ten years to write this book, and she reread all of Camus's work and listened to his speeches and the words of his daughter, Catherine Camus, over and over again.
The book reads mainly like letters to her great friends, the poets René Char and Louis Guilloux, and to Maria Casarès.