An Analysis of How the Character of Meursault is Estranged From the Reader in The Outsider by Albert Camus
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The Outsider
Considered one of the best pieces of absurdist and existentialist literature, Albert Camus’ The Outsider, which was published in 1942, deals with the life of Meursault, a French man in Algeria, and the eventual consequences of his murder of an Arab man. Throughout the novel, Camus emphasizes the inauthenticity and ridiculousness of societal traditions and…