The Stranger by Albert Camus

The Stranger is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1942. Its theme and outlook are often cited as exemplars of existentialism.

The title character is Meursault, an Algerian ("a citizen of France domiciled in North Africa, a man of the Mediterranean, anhomme du midi yet one who hardly partakes of the traditional Mediterranean culture" who seemingly irrationally kills an Arab man whom he recognises in French Algiers. The story is divided into two parts: Meursault's first-person narrative view before and after the murder, respectively.

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