The Stranger  (English, Paperback, Camus Albert)

The Stranger is a philosophical masterpiece based on existentialism and a manifestation of Albert Camus’s absurdist weltanschauung. This luminous narrative depicts motley philosophical theories by exploring the condition of the protagonist who is emotionless, dispassionate and an aberration from the so-called normal lot.

Summary Of The Book

Meursault, the French Algerian protagonist wears a stoical attitude. He is not perturbed by anything which is associated with the mortal world. This nonchalant disposition earns him the epithet ‘Stranger’.

The Stranger is interspersed with various interconnected metaphysical tenets like determinism, nihilism, naturalism, and stoicism.
Meursault also has a diabolical streak; he murders a person without any apparent perceptible motive. He spurns Marie Cardona’s romantic overtures and doesn’t offer help to Salamano to find his lost dog.

An undoubtedly timeless philosophical classic, The Stranger or French L’Etranger was first published in French in the year 1942. At first it was rendered into English by Stuart Gilbert in 1946. The novel has been made into an eponymous Hollywood movie in 1967. 
Albert Camus received the Nobel Prize in literature in 1957. He was the second youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature.

About Albert Camus

Albert Camus was an Algerian-born French author, philosopher, and journalist. He was born in the year 1913.

Apart from The stranger other prominent works of Camus include Caligula and Cross Purpose, The Plague, The Rebel, The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays, The Fall etc. As a prolific writer he has also penned several critical studies.

Albert Camus, the lustrous non-metropolitan French author has followed a very eloquent style. Through his writings he has accentuated the quirky entwinement of man and world.

Albert Camus was born in Dréan (then known as Mondovi) in French Algeria to a Pied-Noir family. His mother was of Spanish descent and was half-deaf. His father was a poor agricultural worker who died in the Battle of the Marne in 1914 during World War I. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement. In 1960 in a tragic automobile accident Albert Camus passed away.