Much better.

i think they were on the same side. dystopia here we are! the stranger meet zarathustra, your long lost cousin.

I say other side because while Nietzche looks at the meaningless life and says it therefore has no value, Camus goes on to affirm its value.  One shouldn't merely commit suicide, but rather continue the fight!  Rebel to his last, that Camus.

and that's why it's much better.

i disagree, deconstruction occurs and then the building of your value system. different eras. camus, sartre too, has mentioned nietzsche as an influence. nietzsche looks at both perspectives. (various perspectives) his 'gay science' is all about affirming life. his theme of the 'overman' is all but meaningless. his 'free spirit', his vibrant language, his 'how to philosophize with a hammer', most of his writing is a few steps over nothingness. the best thing nietzsche wrote was not that god is dead, people have been saying that before him, its that everything changes once you realize there is no god. every decision/thought from that point on must be looked at again. it's a very creative moment when you look at everything differently. 

and i'm not a huge nietzsche fan either. but both were on the same coin, more or less. creativity is panacea.

and that's better and worse at the same time.

Well said Rimmy.

I like both Nietzsche and Camus, but although Nietzsche was a good (philosophic) writer, he has not written beautiful novels like Camus. I think both l'Etranger and La Peste are very good stories.