The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus '
Mother died today.
Camus was killed in a road accident in 1960..
His books include The Plague, The Just and The Fall, and he won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.
He was one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement and, after the War, established his international reputation as a writer.
He studied philosophy in Algiers and then worked in Paris as a journalist.
Ballard '
A compelling, dreamlike fable'
Guardian Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913.
Blood and sand'
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The story of a beach murder, one of the century's classic novels.
He is on trial for being different - an outsider.
In court, it is clear that Meursault's guilt or innocence will not be determined by what he did or did not do.
Returning to Algiers after the funeral, he carries on life as usual until he becomes involved in a violent murder.
So when his mother dies and he is unmoved, he refuses to do the proper thing and grieve.
He is true to himself.
He will not pretend.
He will not lie.
Or maybe yesterday, I don't know'
Meursault is different.
The Outsider is an enduring classic of existential writing by Albert Camus '
Mother died today
