num_pages: 181
description: The Stranger, Camus's first novel, is both a brilliantly crafted story and an illustration of Camus's absurdist world view. The novel tells the story of an emotionally detached, amoral young man named Meursault. He does not cry at his mothers funeral, does not believe in God and kills a man he barely knows without any discernible motive. For his crime, Meursault is deemed a threat to society and sentenced to death. When he comes to accept the "gentle indifference of the world" he finds peace with himself and with the society that persecutes him.
language: English
title: The Stranger
titlecomplete: The Stranger
characters: Salamano, Meursault, Marie Cardona, Raymond Sintès
genres: Classics, France, Philosophy, Novels, School, 20th Century, Literature, French Literature, Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 1016989
places: New Mexico, North Africa, Algeria
awards: awardedAt: 599644800000
name: PEN Translation Prize
category: Matthew Ward
publisher: McGraw-Hill