I usually don't read philosophical texts. Whenever I read one I have already forgotten what was said on a page once I've reached its bottom. Camus is completely different. He explains the world and other philosopher's work as no one else does and in a way that makes you understand everything he and others said. The Rebel is an utterly brilliant work which explains you half of all the classics ever written, from Dostoevsky to Sade or Lautréamont and lots of philosopher's works like Hegel, Nietzsche or Marx. I've read Camus's novels The Outsider and The Plague which are well written and easy to understand but neither of them was as outstanding as The Rebel. This man really deserved the Nobel in literature and it's a pity he died so young.