The Outsider

Albert Camus author Sandra Smith translator

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Penguin Books Ltd

Published:2nd Jun '22

Should be back in stock very soon

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Albert Camus' existentialist masterpiece, now in a wonderful new Clothbound Classics edition

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.

Probably no European writer of his time left so deep a mark on the imagination -- Conor Cruise O'Brien

ISBN: 9780241554401

Dimensions: 206mm x 136mm x 13mm

Weight: 233g

128 pages