L'Étranger

Also known as: The Outsider (UK translation)

Author

Albert Camus

Language

French

Year

1942

Country

France

Genre

Novel

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The Stranger, also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus's novels to be published, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent man in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative before and after the killing.