Albert Camus (1913–1960) is a French writer, playwright, one of the founders of French “atheistic” existentialism, and Nobel Prize laureate in literature. The thinker’s main philosophical works are “The Myth of Sisyphus” (development of the philosophy and aesthetics of the “absurd”), “Rebel Man” (a polemic against nihilism, considered as a prerequisite for the theory and practice of totalitarianism), “Letters to a German Friend” and “Swedish Speeches”. Camus began writing “The Rebel Man” in February 1950. A year later, in March 1951, the main text of the book was completed. Separate chapters - on Nietzsche and Lautreamont - were published in magazines before the book was published. The Rebel Man was published in 1951 by Gallimard.