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' The Foreigner '), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus's novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria , who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers .
Albert Camus (/ k æ ˈ m uː / [2] ka-MOO; ... (The Outsider [UK] or The Stranger [US]), the philosophical essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus), and the ...
The Outsider (Camus novel) or The Stranger (L'Étranger), a 1942 novel by Albert Camus; The Outsider (Colin Wilson), a 1956 book by Colin Wilson; The Outsider, a 2018 novel by Stephen King "The Outsider" (short story), a 1926 short story by H. P. Lovecraft; The Outsider (Wright novel), a 1953 novel by Richard Wright
Camus made his debut as a writer in 1937, but his breakthrough came with the novel L’étranger ("The Stranger"), published in 1942. It concerns the absurdity of life, a theme he returns to in other books, including his philosophical work Le mythe de Sisyphe ("The Myth of Sisyphus", 1942).
Songwriter Robert Smith said the song "was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in the 1942 novel L'Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus". [5] The lyrics describe a shooting on a beach, in which the titular Arab is killed by the song's narrator; in Camus' story the protagonist, Meursault, shoots an Arab on a ...
62. "A friend may be waiting behind a stranger's face." — Maya Angelou ... Just walk beside me and be my friend." — Albert Camus. 92. "The bird a nest, the spider a web, man friendship ...
The Stranger The Outsider: Albert Camus: 1942: French 2 In Search of Lost Time Remembrance of Things Past: Marcel Proust: 1913–27: French 3 The Trial: Franz Kafka: 1925: German 4 The Little Prince: Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: 1943: French 5 Man's Fate: André Malraux: 1933: French 6 Journey to the End of the Night: Louis-Ferdinand Céline ...
Meursault, the protagonist of Albert Camus' novel The Stranger, murders a character known only as "the Arab", saying, in his trial, that the murder was a meaningless gesture caused by sunstroke or God's absence. Camus left Meursault's victim nameless, but Kamel Daoud gives him a name: Musa.