Rank 84 of 100
The Stranger
Also known as L'Étranger, The Outsider
Synopsis
Meursault, a clerk in Algiers, does not perform grief at his mother’s funeral, and a court later treats that flatness as proof he is a monster. Camus writes a murder and a trial in the same unemphatic voice, until the condemned man finds a kind of clarity the respectable world calls emptiness.
Synopses are original catalog copy written for Every Book Ever, not publisher blurbs.
Catalogue card
- Year
- 1942
- Language
- French
- Country
- France
- Form
- Novel
- Genre
- Literary, Philosophical
- Audience
- Adult
- Era
- 1900–1945
- Movement
- Existentialist
- Series
- —
- Length
- About 123 pages
- Reported copies
- Among the most read novels of the twentieth century
- Kind
- Fiction