Contradictions

The epic scale of Camus's womanising should make me detest the man. Didn't he see the damage he was doing to his poor second wife and, I guess, lots of other 'secondary' victims? Actually, I think he did, and against the odds that's one of the things that makes him likable despite everything. (Clearly, most of the women in Paris seemed to think so - though likable might not be exactly le mot juste. Go figure, eh?)