Task: Text Categorization
Input (English): In one of this author's novels, Joseph Grand struggles to write the perfect sentence, and Jean Tarrou dies despite the efforts of Dr. Bernard Rieux. This author wrote about a disease that strikes Oran in The Plague. A novella by this man begins with the sentence, "Maman is dead today;" in that novel, Mersault is executed for shooting an Arab "because of the sun." For 10 points, name this French existentialist author of The Stranger.
Output (English): Literature