A review by ajnel
The Stranger by Albert Camus: classic novels by Albert Camus

challenging dark reflective medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? Character
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? No
• Diverse cast of characters? No
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

5.0

Camus' classic, The Stranger / The Outsider, was first published exactly 40 years before I was born, during the Second World War.  The novella is split in two parts.  Part one deals with Meursault's life directly after the death of his mother and part two with his life directly after him killing a man by shooting him five times.  Camus, being the anti-philosopher, provides the reader with a bombardment of existentialism, nihilism, absurdity, and even stoicism, and largely leaves it to the reader to interpret the philosophical value through application.  A true masterpiece.