Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, Camus was released with The Stranger and The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), works that reflect a clear existentialist influence. During World War II he was active in the Resistance and founded the clandestine newspaper Combat, although his famous later novels The Plague and The rebel involve some change in their thinking, more oriented towards the salvation of the highest moral and spiritual values, the greater is their conviction of the absurdity of the world.