Sartre was a colleague of critical significance, and said that he reaffirmed the existence of the moral act, though they went on to disagree vehemently. Camus met Diop in Algiers, studying philosophy, always admired Malraux (gravitating towards him when he arrived in Paris), and published articles by Barthes in the resistance journal he edited. He sent Ponge his ‘Sisyphus’ manuscript, and read through Picasso’s play with Queneau, Sartre and de Beauvoir. Koestler, a fellow-outsider, became an immediate friend. They went out on the razzle with Sartre and de Beauvoir, and wrote a joint essay against capital punishment.