While the war in Algeria is still raging, Albert Camus, in the `Speech in Sweden` (December 10, 1957), exposed to the sudden spotlight granted by the Nobel Prize in Literature, turns to his art and states `the dual obligation that gives value to his work: to serve the truth and freedom`.

Being aware that he belongs to a generation that is not destined to rebuild the world but `to prevent it from falling apart` in the face of the destructive course of History, he will wonder four days later in his `Lecture` at Uppsala University whether art is a `deceptive luxury` and will answer: `... Every artist is conscripted to the galley of his time. [...] To create, in our days, means to create dangerously. [...] The challenge is to learn how the bizarre freedom of creation can remain possible amidst the policing of so many ideologies (how many religions, how much loneliness!)`.