This book reminds me why I love short stories. Exile and the Kingdom is a beautiful example of how we can explore different themes of humanity through seemingly disconnected stories. Camus explores a longing for freedom, abandonment, existential confusion, alienation from society, morality, isolation and exile. They all intertwine seamlessly together.

“Where the muscles are at play, work in the end is a curse, it precedes death and evenings of great effort, sleep is truly like death.”