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Mentioned as a play written about Caligula: 'Albert Camus wrote a play about him' in the context of discussing how Caligula has become 'almost a kind of existential hero' in recent times.

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Mentioned in discussion of Camus's works, noting that during the pandemic 'lots of people went back to their copies of La Peste' and called it 'a really, really good book.'

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Described as the unfinished autobiographical novel Camus was working on when he died, found as a 144-page manuscript in the car crash. It was about growing up in Algeria.

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Referenced in discussion of Camus's philosophy of the absurd, with the famous line 'One must think that Sisyphus is happy.'

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Mentioned as 'very interesting short stories' by Camus, many set in Algeria, though noted as having been 'attacked by critics as a bit orientalizing.'

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Tom mentions that Camus wrote this book, in which Christ allows himself to be crucified out of guilt for not having been one of the innocents. This is referenced as setting up a future episode about Camus.