Boxer and The Goal Keeper

Jean-Paul Sartre is the author of possibly the most notorious one-liner of twentieth-century philosophy: ''Hell is other people''. Albert Camus was The Outsider. The two men first came together in Occupied Paris in the middle of the Second World War, and quickly became friends, comrades, and mutual admirers. But the intellectual honeymoon was short-lived.

In 1943, with Nazis patrolling the streets...