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The Stranger (L’Étranger) follows the story of Meursault, an emotionally detached French-Algerian man who refuses to conform to society’s expectations. The novel famously opens with Meursault attending his mother’s funeral, where he displays an unsettling lack of grief. Later, drawn into a neighbor’s conflict, he shoots and kills an unnamed Arab man on a glaringly bright beach, a seemingly motiveless act triggered by the oppressive heat and blinding sun.

During his subsequent trial, the justice system and the public focus less on the murder itself and more on Meursault’s character—specifically his atheism, his lack of remorse, and his failure to cry at his mother’s funeral. Ultimately, he is condemned as much for his refusal to play the emotional games of society as for his crime. The novel is a masterpiece of 20th-century literature and the foundational text for Camus’s philosophy of the Absurd.