after obiwan kenobi and quigon jinn are hijacked to the planet phindar they find themselves trapped in a world gone mad the ruling syndicat controls the people by erasing their memories the planets only hope lies with a band of thieving rebels quigon and obiwan are caught in a mind war and if theyre not careful their own pasts will be wiped out forever the unfinished manuscript of the first man was discovered in the wreckage of a car accident in which camus died in 1960 although it was not published for over thirty years it was an instant bestseller when it finally appeared in 1994 the first man is jacques cormery whose povertystricken childhood in algiers is made bearable by his love for his silent and illiterate mother and by the teacher who transforms his view of the world the most autobiographical of camuss novels it gives profound insights into his life and the powerful themes underlying his work