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Book · 1942 · Fiction

The Stranger

Albert Camus
Vintage International (Penguin Random House) · 123 pages
★ 8.9 editorial score

Meursault buries his mother without crying, takes a lover, and shoots a man on a hot Algiers beach. At his trial the tears he never shed matter more than the killing.

Genre
Philosophical fictionExistentialismPhilosophyAbsurdist fiction
Medium
Novel
Subject
AtheismMurderExistentialismThe law
Setting
Algeria
Time
1942Depicts French Colonial AlgeriaDepicts 1940s

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