\b0 An account of the nakedness of the human being when faced with the absurd
, \i L'Etranger\i0 (\i The Outsider\i0 ) was published by Camus in 1942, when he was only twenty-nine. It relates a banal series of events culminating in a senseless murder, as a result of which the hero ends up on the gallows. A stranger to his own gui
lt, an outsider in his own life, in the last moments of his existence he understands his true freedom from the judgments of humanity and at the end of all hope, \i ôI opened myself for the first time to the tender indifference of the world.ö\i0 Publishe
d at the height of the war, this novel was an immediate success and has remained popular ever since, for its evocative power, its breathless and terse style, and the philosophical reflections that the hero makes as he leaves his tracks in the sand of a b
