The collection "Exile and Kingdom", published in 1957 in France, reflects the profound changes that have taken place in the writer's creative mind. In a period when the idea of creating a “new novel” is becoming widespread, Camus turns to the traditional genre of the short story. Deliberately avoiding innovative forms, combining very different stories in one book, the writer focuses on the problems of the collection.“Exile” and “kingdom” are the poles of life: loneliness and solidarity, between which there is a space of overcoming human life. And the reader will have to feel his involvement in the spiritual world of the artist, who voluntarily chose "internal exile".