The Outsider (edit title)

Timothy Gray approved AndrewTheLott’s request to change the title of The Outsider Saturday, September 26 2009.

AndrewTheLott changed the title of The Outsider Friday, September 25 2009.

Shelfari edited the description of The Outsider Saturday, August 1 2009.

• Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges the fundamental values of society a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. For Meursault, this is an insult to his reason and a betrayal of his hopes; for Camus it encapsulates the absurdity of life. In "The Outsider" (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the predicament of the individual who refuses to pretend and is prepared to face the indifference of the universe, courageously and alone.

Shelfari edited the contributors of The Outsider Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Albert Camus: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of The Outsider Friday, July 17 2009.

• Mother died today.