Is Kamu a Novelist?

Would we call don quixote a novel? I guess that's neither here nor there. Anyway, he says, revolutionary criticism condemns the novel in its pure form as being simply a means of escape or an idlemion. In everyday speech, we find the term romance used to describe an exaggerated description or lying account of some event. Camu takes issue with this rejection. He suggests novels result from man's alienation with in society. So according to kamu, men don't actually want to escape society. They want to belong to society. And so they feel alienated within their own society. They don't want to escape. They just want to belong.