After the first attack he spent a year recuperating with his uncle Gustave Acault. Acault was a butcher, owned his own shop and was relatively well off. He was also an autodidact and well known about town for his intellect and wit. With the support of his uncle, Camus was free to develop his love of literature.
Another man to have a profound influence of Camus at this time was his high school philosophy teacher Jean Grenier. The author of Islands (1933) and Mediterranean Inspiriations (1941), Grenier introduced Camus to the philosophy of Bergson and Nietzsche. Grenier later joined the faculty at the University of Algiers. He was there at the same time as Camus, who joined the university as a student in 1933. Grenier would help persuade Camus that he should be active in the Algerian Communist Party.
Camus met Simone Hie, a beautiful bohemian actress, in 1932. She was engaged to his friend Max-Pol Fouchet who was then leader of the Federation of Young Socialists in Algeria. Two years later Camus and Hie were married. It was a difficult marriage, Simone had a drug problem addicted to morphine since the age of fourteen. She would embarrass him in public and sleep with his friends. The pair divorced in 1940. They stayed in contact with Camus sending her money when she needed it.
