Albert Camus’s Heart-Rending Romance with Another Woman

Or How Not To leave your wife for love

Actress María Casares and Nobel Laureate Albert Camus on Wikipedia in the public domain, altered by the author

Why does someone betray their partner? And why is it such a cliché that a married guy gets in bed with another woman?

When Albert Camus slept with María Casares, he was already famous while she had barely come of age. Oh yeah, he also had a wife and two kids.