The book examines the relationship between humanism and setting in the fiction of Albert Camus
and Alex La Guma. It first defines humanism as the general concern for anything which promotes
human values and human dignity and setting as the temporal spatial and other circumstances in
which a narrative takes place. The fiction of Albert Camus reveals that Camus's concern for
humanism in a world of nihilism and the absurd captures the spirit of the Second World War
period and its aftermath instilling in the writer an advocacy for solidarity and revolt among
oppressed individuals. An analysis of Alex La Guma's fiction portrays him as a writer who
succeeds in establishing links between Apartheid and Africans' state of dehumanization. In both
writers' works revolt is valued over resignation solidarity over individualism.
