Camus's Masterpiece: the Outsider + the Plague (set of 2 Volumes)
About This Novel
"The Stranger" is Camus' famous work, a masterpiece of existential literature, and a representative work of absurd novels. The novel tells the story of an ordinary young clerk who lives numbly in aimless inertia. One day he goes to the beach for vacation, gets involved in a conflict and commits a murder. Because "he did not shed tears at his mother's funeral", he is sentenced to death by the court in the name of "the French people". The novel elaborates on an important proposition of existentialism: the absurdity and strangeness of human society lead to individual despair and emptiness. "The Plague" is one of Camus' important masterpieces. By describing the outbreak of plague in a city called Oran in North Africa, the story of a large number of people represented by the protagonist Dr. Rieux struggling to face the plague. It vividly demonstrates the great liberal humanitarian spirit of those who dare to face the bleak life and possess the fearless spirit of "knowing that it is impossible to do it". They rise up against the absurd and insist on truth and justice in despair.
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