France

The Stranger

by Albert Camus

Summary

Meursault, a French Algerian, kills an Arab on a beach and faces trial — less for the murder than for his failure to weep at his mother's funeral. Camus's most celebrated novel, it introduced absurdism to a wide readership.

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Albert Camus

French-Algerian novelist, essayist, and philosopher (1913–1960) and Nobel laureate whose work is associated with absurdism. He explored the tension between humanity's desire for meaning and the universe's silence on the matter.

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Published
1942
Author
Albert Camus