The Stranger or The Outsider (L’Étranger) is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1942. Its theme and outlook are often cited as examples of existentialism, though Camus did not consider himself an existentialist; in fact, its content explores various philosophical schools of thought, including (most prominently and specifically) absurdism, as well as determinism, nihilism, naturalism, and stoicism.

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• Algerian
• Camus
• Existentialism
• Fiction
• French
• Nihilism
• Philosophy

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• Algerian
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• Short stories
• The Adulterous Woman
• The Artist at Work
• The Growing Stone
• The Guest
• The Renegade
• The Silent Men

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death.
Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine, each responding in their own way to the lethal bacillus: some resign themselves to fate, some seek to blame and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror.

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• Algerian
• Allegorical
• Camus
• Existentialism
• Fiction
• France
• Novel
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• Plague