EXISTENTIALISM: The First Man by Albert Camus

Plot Summary:

The novel takes Jacques Cormery from birth to his years in the lycee, or secondary school, in Algiers. In a departure from the intellectual and philosophical weight of his earlier works, Camus wanted this novel to be "heavy with things and flesh." It is a novel of basic and essential things: childhood, schooldays, the life of the body, the power of the sun and the sea, the painful love of a son for his mother, the search for a lost father. But it is also about the history of a colonial people in a vast and not always hospitable African landscape; about the complex relationship of a "mother" country to its colonists; about the intimate effects of war and political revolution.

(http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_First_Man)

My Criticism:

The readers of this kind of novel can relate to its theme that made them interested to read it. It shows that we should live life to the fullest and be contented of what we have. The storyline somehow is fairly developed. The character's life is believable like to those people who was a product of a broken family. The novel is about being visceral and vulnerable of the character and the author as well in a chaotic world.