Outsider (Chuangmei Library)

"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 all day long. 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.