The Outsider

Albert Camus, Sandra Smith, Sandra Smith

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Penguin
20 September 2022

Fiction & Literature; Classic fiction (pre c 1945); Fiction in translation

Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics

Albert Camus' existentialist masterpiece, now in a wonderful new Clothbound Classics edition

In The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.

By: Albert Camus
Translated by: Sandra Smith, Sandra Smith
Imprint: Penguin
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 206mm, Width: 136mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 233g
ISBN: 9780241554401
ISBN 10: 0241554403
Series: Penguin Clothbound Classics
Pages: 128
Publication Date: 20 September 2022
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Albert Camus (1913-60) grew up in a working-class neighbourhood in Algiers. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist. His most important works include The Outsider, The Myth of Sisyphus, The Plague and The Fall. After the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He was killed in a road accident, and his last unfinished novel, The First Man, appeared posthumously.