The Stranger

By Albert Camus

Categories: Literature & Fiction

The Stranger (1942) is the first novel by Albert Camus, about a detached young man in French Algeria. Meursault, a clerk in Algiers, attends his mother's funeral without showing grief and resumes his ordinary life, beginning an affair and befriending a neighbour. On a hot day at the beach, he kills an Arab man, and his trial focuses as much on his indifference and lack of remorse as on the crime itself.

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