"A man almost young, rich only in his doubts and with his work still in progress, accustomed to living in the solitude of work or in the retreats of friendship: how would he not feel a kind of panic at hearing the decree that transports him all of a sudden, alone and reduced to himself, to the centre of a glaring light? "

Éste páragrafo apartenece al grande escritor frances Albert Camus, y son sus palabras antes de recibir el premio Nobel por Litératura en 1957.