Albert Camus'existentialist masterpiece,now in a wonderful new Clothbound Classics editionIn 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.
Publisher: Penguin Books LtdISBN: 9780241554401Number of pages: 128Weight: 239 gDimensions: 204 x 138 x 17 mm
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Probably no European writer of his time left so deep a mark on the imagination
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