After a brief introduction and initial chapter profiling the critical encounter between the two writers, Davison deals in turn with the following topics: the absurd novel; suicide and logic; rebellion; freedom and the Man-God; Christian
Tzarism and the Absurd; metaphysical revolt; nihilism and historical revolt, and the challenge of the Underground (with specific reference to what Davison calls Camus's most Dostoevskian work, La Chute).