The Outsider

Author: Camus, Albert

Classic fiction (pre c 1945)

Published on 30 July 2020 by Penguin Books Ltd (Penguin Classics) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback / softback | 144 pages
111 x 179 x 12 | 90g

'One of those books that marks a reader's life indelibly' William Boyd'A compelling, dreamlike fable' GuardianIn The Outsider, 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.