Albert Camus, a 20th century intellectual and representative writer of existentialist literature.

A portrait of modern people who live as strangers, alienated from reality.

A novel that appears as a 'stranger' in modern French literature with unfamiliar characters and an original format.
This work, which brought international fame to the young, unknown writer Albert Camus, powerfully depicts the existential experience that modern people, alienated from reality and living as outsiders, face only when faced with death.
Camus presents a new type of human being who breaks away from existing conventions and rules through the character of Meursault, who is 'not afraid to die for the truth without taking a heroic stance.'

Meursault works as a clerk in a ship broker's office in Algiers.
He is an educated young man with no desire for social advancement or ambition, and is strangely indifferent to his surroundings, unwilling to change his life.
After committing an accidental murder, he becomes a 'stranger' in the world. No one, including the lawyer, the judge, and the priest, who tries to help him, fully understands Meursault, and he is unable to accept the world around him.
Camus portrays the life of Meursault, who is completely alienated from everything around him, and who only when he is on the verge of death shakes off the temptation of faith and salvation and faces himself and the world squarely, as a portrait of a lonely modern man living in oppressive customs and absurdity.