The Stranger
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Camus's spare existential novel follows Meursault, a man whose flat emotional detachment - before and after a senseless killing on an Algerian beach - exposes the absurd gap between social expectation, moral judgement, and inner reality. His refusal to perform grief, more than the crime itself, is what the world cannot forgive.
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