{"product_id":"the-outsider-by-albert-camus","title":"'The Outsider' by Albert Camus","description":"\u003ch4\u003eA man’s mother dies. He goes to the funeral, returns to Algiers, begins an affair, helps a neighbour with a sordid dispute and, almost incidentally, kills a man on a beach. \u003c\/h4\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eBut, Meursault’s great offence is not simply murder but his refusal—or inability—to perform the emotions expected of him. In Camus’s severe, lucid prose, the everyday world becomes almost unnervingly physical: heat, light, exhaustion, cigarettes, sex, hunger. Against that material immediacy sit the narratives other people construct around him, until his failure to pretend becomes evidence in itself. First published as \u003cem\u003eL’Étranger\u003c\/em\u003e in 1942, \u003cem\u003eThe Outsider\u003c\/em\u003e remains Camus’s sharpest fictional expression of the absurd: the confrontation between our hunger for coherence and a world under no obligation to provide it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePenguin Books, Harmondsworth, 1974. Penguin Modern Classics. English translation first published by Hamish Hamilton in 1946; first Penguin edition 1961. Later 1974 printing. Paperback. Some age-toning to pages and light shelf wear to covers and edges; binding sound. Very good vintage condition.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"bower studio","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46011056619603,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0689\/0268\/2707\/files\/womenintranslation_66.png?v=1787364123","url":"https:\/\/bowerbooks.com\/products\/the-outsider-by-albert-camus","provider":"bower books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}