In the 20th century, existentialist philosophers appear on the stage of French literature, among them Jean-Paul Sartr and Albert Camus, writers who became a favorite object of literary and historical and philosophical scientific research. The search for the meaning of life, the search for something that contains the basic values and ideals: beauty, kindness, truth, justice, freedom. These values and ideals have always formed the basis, the goal of life and the goal of the creative activity of theses masters of the pen and word.