Modern Classics the Outsider [Book]
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Highlights
- When his mother dies he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others
- His most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Plague (1947), The Just (1949), The Rebel (1951) and The Fall (1956)
- treats Camus' text with respect, directness and an unexpected delicateness
- Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie
- When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others
- And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt i
'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie.
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