More than likely to solve the riddle of the absurd, the human condition, that plague's us all, as we seek to find value in life. Th narrative tone of Camus' The Plage [1947), is similar to Kafka's The Trial. And Camus helps towards solving what is asburd, one-by-one and in the natue of man, in the world. He took the line here of a philosophical approach.in seeking the value of life. As did numerous other existenionalists in Paris at that time in the 1940s - in particular. It is perhaps what Tarrou wanted, to know more of his self, of the nature of his destiny.
