Camus' "Fall"From Nietzsche

For Albert Camus, Friedrich Nietzsche was a most remarkable thinker, a man of lucidity and courage, a yes-sayer to freedom and creativity, the poet-philosopher par excellence. Camus' texts provide evidence of a deep attachment to Nietzsche and testify to the fact that Nietzsche was one of his most significant mentors. From the manifold citations in the Notebooks and references in The Myth of Sisyphus, A Happy Death and The Stranger, where respectively Mersault and Meursault achieve varieties of "immoralism" and transvaluate values, from the exploration of the will to power in Caligula to the essay in The Rebel, which ponders the implications of Nietzsche's later works, the presence of Nietzsche in Camus' thought is clear. Nevertheless, Camus referred to Nietzsche, with Hegel and Marx, as one of the "evil geniuses of contemporary Europe [who] bore the label of philosopher." Much has been written about the relationship between Nietzsche and Camus, but most of the commentary has been rather general; little