This new graphic adaptation of Camus's final novel tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like Camus's own. The stunning, fully illustrated edition summons up the sights, sounds, and Algeria-and the young protagonist's attachment to his nearly deaf, illiterate mother. In telling the story of his metaphorical search for his father, who died in World War I, Camus returns to the "land of oblivion where each one is the first man" and must find his own answers. Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car accident that killed the Nobel Peace Prize-winning novelist, The First Man was the brilliant interpretation of the life and work of one of the twentieth century's greatest authors. Jacques Ferrandez's graphic interpretation of the powerful novel captures the poignancy and mystery of Camus's masterful narrative of childhood in a visually stunning new edition.