Abstract

This paper evokes fusion between individual history and collective history in autobiographical novel of Albert Camus. In the first time, the narrator speaks about himself, about his family, about his childhood and his adolescence. Then, he is interested by the historical events: the installation of the first French colonists in North Africa at the 19th century, the problems dependent on colonialism, the war of Algeria, etc. The interpretation of this autobiographical work is oriented by the following questions: how does the historical experience articulate in the discourse? What kind of perception of historical facts is at work? Thus, the autobiographical novel seems able to restore the one period historical past upset, perhaps better than a treaty of history