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In 1956, Albert Camus wrote La Chute, brutally satirizing the accusations his then ex-friend, Jean-Paul Sartre, made against his character during a philosophical and very public feud between them regarding Camus's anti-communist manifesto, L'Homme révolté, and Sartre's communist apologetics in general.  La Chute was originally billed as a short story to be included in a collection Camus was writing, called L'Exil et le royaume, but it outgrew the scope he originally had in mind. The next year, Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature, and L'Exil et le royaume was published, and included in it was the difficult and obscure short story, "Le renégat."