These essays are the first steps in literature of a 22-year-old writer still searching for his own voice. They represent two sides of Camus's worldview, one of which is the sphere of Ho, the other is the sphere of No. Camus neither rejects the sun nor the shadow, for he knows well that for a man born in a sunny country, whose life flows by the sea full of dazzling light, "the sun is sometimes dark" (René Chard)