Albert Camus’s early novel “A Happy Death” will surely interest readers because it contains many mysteries. The novel was not published during the author’s lifetime, but it is precisely “A Happy Death” that opens Camus’s creative dialogue with Nietzsche—a dialogue that, throughout Camus’s life, served as a source of inspiration and literary discoveries. “A Happy Death” is an extremely tender attempt at a first draft, yet even in the novel the theme of “the Outsider” clearly sounds—one that later will become a leitmotif of the works of this French existentialist.