The Outsider (The Stranger) by Albert Camus (Author), Stuart Gilbert (Translator)

Albert Camus is considered as one of the most influential authors of the Twentieth century, both for the quality of his fiction and for the depth and insightfulness of his philosophy. The Outsider (The Stranger) is Albert Camus’s first novel. First published in 1942, the novel is a representation of Camus’s absurdist world view. The novel is about an emotionally detached, amoral young man named Meursault. Meursault does not cry at his mother’s funeral, does not believe in with the society that persecutes him. God. He kills an unknown man without any apparent motive. Meursault is considered as a threat to society and is sentenced to death. Ultimately, he comes to accept the ‘gentle indifference of the world.’ He fi nds peace with himself and…