# The Outsider

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- Book: [The Outsider](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus/the-outsider) ([The Outsider.md](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus/the-outsider.md))
- Authors: [Albert Camus](https://www.bookquiver.com/albert-camus)
- Publisher: penguin_classics
- ISBN: 978-02-4155-440-1
- Pages: 128
- Published: 2022-06-02
- Language: en_GB
- Binding: Hardcover

## Description

In The Outsider , his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.