The Stranger by Albert Camus
Overview Albert Camus’s The Stranger (originally L’Étranger in French) stands as one of the most significant literary works of the twentieth century. First published in 1942, the novel is a philosophical meditation on human existence, meaning, and mortality. Through the life and trial of its protagonist Meursault, Camus constructs a powerful exploration of absurdism—the philosophical position that human existence […]