The Outsider

Author:

Albert Camus

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Penguin Random House India Private Limited

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Publisher	Penguin Random House India Private Limited
Publication Year	2013
ISBN-13	USEDBOOK064
ISBN-10	USEDBOOK064
Binding	Paperback
Number of Pages	128 Pages
Language	(English)
Dimensions (Cms)	20 X 14 X 1.8
Weight (grms)	100

Meursault leads an unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only increase his guilt in the eyes of the law and challenge the fundamental values of society a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. For Meursault, this is an insult to his reason for Camus it encapsulates the absurdity of life. In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the predicament of the individual who is prepared to face the indifference of the universe, courageously and alone.

Albert Camus

Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man, appeared posthumously.