The Outsider
by Albert Camus
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- Paperback
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- ISBN 10
- 0140061584
- ISBN 13
- 9780140061581
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Penguin, London, 1986. 4th paperback printing. Condition: Very good plus, light edge and corner wear, price sticker on rear cover.
Meursault will not pretend. After the death of his mother, everyone is shocked when he shows no sadness. And when he commits a random act of violence in Algiers, society is baffled. Why would this seemingly law-abiding bachelor do such a thing? And why does he show no remorse even when it could save his life? His refusal to satisfy the feelings of others only increases his guilt in the eyes of the law. Soon Meursault discovers that he is being tried not simply for his crime, but for his lack of emotion - a reaction that condemns him for being an outsider. For Meursault, this is an insult to his reason and a betrayal of his hopes; for Camus it encapsulates the absurdity of life.
Meursault will not pretend. After the death of his mother, everyone is shocked when he shows no sadness. And when he commits a random act of violence in Algiers, society is baffled. Why would this seemingly law-abiding bachelor do such a thing? And why does he show no remorse even when it could save his life? His refusal to satisfy the feelings of others only increases his guilt in the eyes of the law. Soon Meursault discovers that he is being tried not simply for his crime, but for his lack of emotion - a reaction that condemns him for being an outsider. For Meursault, this is an insult to his reason and a betrayal of his hopes; for Camus it encapsulates the absurdity of life.
Synopsis
Published in 1942, The Outsider was Camus' first novel. The main character is Meursault, who holds no real opinion, nor does anything seem to effect him. From the dark horizon of my future a sort of slow, persistent breeze had been blowing toward me, all my life long, from the years that were to come. and on its way that breeze had leveled out all the ideas that people tried to foist on me in the equally unreal years i then was living through."
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- Title
- The Outsider
- Author
- Albert Camus
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 4th printing
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0140061584
- ISBN 13
- 9780140061581
- Publisher
- Penguin Books
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1986
- Bookseller catalogs
- Modern Literature; Philosophy;
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