This volume is devoted to the period between 1944 and 1948, during which Camus asserts himself as a committed journalist and as a creator. The first aspect is studied in six contributions which highlight the moral and political preoccupations of Camus. The second, via twelve contributions, reveals Camus’s other key concerns: confronted as a dramatist and a novelist by his desire to inscribe his creative work within reality, he maintains as his objective to transcend it through the celebration of beauty.Combat, engagement, langage, création, éthique, beauté