"The Outsider" is probably the most wonderful book that Algerian genius Albert Camus ever wrote, drawing in theories from "The Rebel" and "The Myth of Sisyphus" as well as existentialist ideas from the likes of Sartre into a blistering indictment of human society.
Meursault, a bachelor, living in Algiers, leads a completely unremarkable life until he finds himself committing an act of violence. A man who is incapable of lying, in any sense of the word, his response challenges all of the absurd values which society holds to be fundamental. Meursault's responses to the law, religion and society shake at the very heart of what traditionalists hold to be morally correct.
Incredibly readable, no book will change your way of thinking quite like this one. It says so much for Camus' incredible skill as a prose reader that the book manages to strike the reader so much in such a short and digestable length.
Joseph Laredo's translation is superb, this book is fantastic - buy it and read it, over and over again!!
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Cамиздат [Samizdat]
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