Albert Camus | The Outsider
- Copyright: © Joseph Laredo, 1982
"My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know."
In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal. Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd, and revolting against the injustice of society, depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the "tender indifference" of the world.- Language: English
- Dimensions: 13 х 21 cm
- Pages: 224
- Cover: hardcover
- First published: 1942
- This edition published: 2020