L'Étranger

About “L'Étranger”

The Stranger, published in 1942, is a novella by Albert Camus. It is his first published novel and follows the character Meursault, a man in French Algeria who shows little emotion or interest in life. After his mother's funeral, Meursault kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, with the first part told in Meursault's first-person perspective, covering events before the killing. The second part focuses on the aftermath of the murder and Meursault's trial. The novel explores themes of alienation and existentialism. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)