Albert Camus / The Outsider by Stuart Gilbert
Meursault, an emotionally detached Algerian office worker, reacts to his mother's death with apparent indifference and soon kills an Arab man in a seemingly impulsive act on a sun-drenched beach; the subsequent trial focuses less on the facts of the crime than on his failure to display conventional emotions, exposing society's need for moral narratives. Through spare, precise prose the novel examines alienation, the absurdity of existence, physical sensations versus social expectations, and the protagonist’s eventual, stark confrontation with mortality and the possibility of finding personal honesty in a meaningless world.
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- Published
- 1942
- Nationality
- French
- Length
- Very Short
- Pages
- 120-160 pages
- Original Language
- French
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- Alternate Titles
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- L'Étranger
- The Stranger
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