The unfinished novel by Albert Camus, who died in a car accident he should never have been in.

January 4, 1960 was a Monday. In its next edition, Le Figaro reported a road accident, it was the first article that concerned this "news item", there were many others. In a factual style, the journalist wrote: "On January 4, the great writer Albert Camus , aged 46, Nobel Prize winner for literature, died around 2 p.m., in a terrible car accident that occurred between Sens and Montereau, on the border of the departments of Yonne and Seine-et-Marne. Mr. Michel Gallimard, his wife, Janine, and her 18-year-old daughter were injured and hospitalized in Montereau." Later, it was learned that the car had crashed into a plane tree at Le Petit Villeblevin, in the commune of Villeblevin, 2.5 kilometers south of Villeneuve-la-Guyard. Apparently, a tire burst. The vehicle, which was traveling at high speed, was sent 13 meters further onto a second plane tree, where it literally crashed into...