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Temporarily out of stock
Title: Outsider, The
Author: CAMUS ALBERT
Illustrator: SMITH SANDRA (TR)
Format: PAPERBACK
Publication date: 31/10/2013
Imprint: PENGUIN CLASSIC
Price: $17.00
Publishing status: Active
The classic existentialist novel, in a wonderful new translation by Sandra Smith, now in paperback
Meursault leads an unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenge the fundamental values of society – a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. For Meursault, this is an insult to his reason; for Camus it encapsulates the absurdity of life. In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the predicament of the individual who is prepared to face the indifference of the universe, courageously and alone.
Series: Penguin Modern Classics
ISBN: 9780141198064
Weight: 100g
Dimension: 188mm X 118mm
Pages: 128
Edition: 01