La noche de la verdad

In 1944 Albert Camus had already published The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus, but it was his articles in Combatlos that made him known and made him emerge as a moral and intellectual leader. Between the fall of 1943 and June 1947, he was the editor-in-chief and editorial writer of this Resistance newspaper. His texts offer us the lucid testimony of a journalist aware of his responsibilities both during the occupation and after it, when everyday life had to be rethought and at the same time drawing the future of France and Europe. Determined to introduce morality into politics, Camus reacts to issues and events such as deportations, liberation, justice for collaborationists, the return of prisoners of war, food shortages, the role of international institutions in the postwar period, colonial injustices (and in particular the Algerian problem) and the situation of the press. More than seventy years after their publication, these texts continue to be moving and very impressive, and we hear in them the passionate voice of a writer willing to participate in history with his intense desire for justice, freedom and truth.