The Stranger

by Albert Camus · 1942

Meursault, indifferent to his mother's death, kills a man on a sun-blinded beach and is condemned as much for his honesty as his crime.

Books that mention The Stranger (3)

• The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides: “People had been hoping for The Stranger, which they'd already read in high school”
• The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky: “It’s called The Stranger.”
• Against Interpretation and Other Essays by Susan Sontag: “Sartre has shown, in his excellent review of The Stranger, how the celebrated 'white style' of Camus' novel...”