The Outsider (English, Paperback, Camus Albert)

The Outsider or The Stranger is a famous novel written by the Nobel Prize winning writer Albert Camus.

Summary of the Book

Meursault is a French Algerian bachelor leading an ordinary life. He comes to know about his mother’s death and decides to attend the funeral. Meursault is man on whom there is seldom any emotional impact. He is also not really disturbed about his mother’s death, but is found very relaxed at the funeral. He even gets involved in a sexual relationship with a former employee of his firm the very next day. A few days later, his neighbour and friend Raymond asks for an unusual favour, and Meursault does help him. His indifference even takes him to the point of killing an Arab man one day! The protagonist’s first-person narrative view is divided into two parts: before murder and after murder. The Outsider remains to be one of the best works ever written by Camus, bringing out the philosophy known as absurdism.

About Albert Camus

Albert Camus was born in French Algeria in 1913. He was a Nobel Prize winning author, philosopher and journalist. He completed his studies at the University of Algiers. He founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement in the year 1949. Camus passed away in a car accident at the age of 46. Some his notable works are The Plague, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Rebel, A Happy Death and The First Man.