Essential Contradiction vs Human Contradiction

In the section of Conquest, Camus says ““It is man’s demands made against his fate; the demands of the poor are but a pretext. Yet I can seize that spirit only in its historical act, and that is where I make contact with it. Don’t assume, however, that I take pleasure in it: opposite the essential contradiction, I maintain my human contradiction. I establish my lucidity in the midst of what negates it. ”

Is it “correct” to interpret Essential contradiction as desire for meaning vs the universe’s silence and Human contradiction our want for life vs death?