ABSTRACT
Among the effects a great writer produces, one must include the resistance to the evil. Such an effect is all the more natural in the work of a writer-philosopher like Camus in view of the fact that he remains quite obviously the most debated figure of twentieth-century French literature. It doesn’t matter if we consider Camus as a literatus or a philosopher – throughout all his work, there is an acute consciousness about the problem of evil that is human being’s permanent condition. Camus combated all his life the philosophical pretensions of French Stalinism as a historically ambivalent attitude towards the problem of political evil, while not forgetting that the plague of Nazism was not a natural phenomenon occurring in European history and should be combated and defeated with the same solidarity and participation. However, the two concepts of hope and solidarity in Camus’ work are far from being rooted in the Christian tradition of thought. In Camus’ understanding of human life, either individual or communitarian, action is not reducible to a messianic view of history and Man. Thus, evil is always latent within human reality since the capacity for injustice is an intractable aspect of mankind’s destiny.
