sophy of the Absurd.
McCarthy notes a number of literary influences on young Camus, notably AndrT Gide and AndrT Malraux and other writers in the avant-garde magazine of the 1930s Nouvelle Revue Frantaise. Malraux was his favorite, and Malraux's novel La Condition Humaine (1933) appealed with its tragic vision of the human condition. McCarthy notes that Camus inherited from this both the idea of "condition," the means of explaining human beings in terms of the metaphysical rather than the psychological, and the sense of the tragic. Another major literary influence was Jean Grenier, who lectured at the university of Algiers where Camus studied philosophy and Belamich literature. From these writers and various teachers Camus developed much of his incipient political thought (McCarthy 34-39).
Camus's first major philosophical work was Le Mythe de Sisyphe in 1942, and it was an attempt to resolve the problem of suicide while also addressing the early development of the Absurd. Camus says that suicide is
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