Albert Camus is a literary artist, he was born in Algeria in the year 1913. ... Albert Camus dedicated his life and writings to discover the purpose of mans existence. ... Camus published his novel The Stranger, to provide an example of the absurd. ... His aim was to reduce the sum total of human suffering (Albert Camus: A Study of His Work, Philip Thody). ... This is Albert Camus way to shows how the absurd in life is always there. ...

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"The Outsider," also known as "The Stranger," is a novel by Albert Camus that was published in 1942. ... Throughout the novel, Camus focuses strongly on the fundamental values of society, and how society tolerates people who do not conform to these values. Camus achieves this by incorporating aspects of existentialist philosophy in the novel. ... Camus feels that one exists only in the world physically and therefore the presence or absence of meaning in one's life is alone revealed through that event which he or she is experiencing at a particular moment. ...

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In Albert Camus" The Stranger, his actions and reactions display him as an immoral man, expressing apathy towards society's formulas for convention. ... Confronted with the court's legal mechanics, Meursault is a stranger to the judicial world, thus disabling him. Meursault is also a stranger to social custom. ...

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• Grade Level: High School