The Outsider Author: [France] Albert Camus Publisher: Shanghai Translation Publishing House Original title: L'Étranger

Albert Camus (1913-1960) is a famous French novelist, essayist and playwright, and a master of "existentialist" literature. In 1957, he won the Nobel Prize in Literature for "passionately and calmly expounding on the various questions raised by the contemporary human conscience", and he is one of the youngest Nobel Prize winners in history. In his novels, plays, essays and treatises, Camus profoundly reveals the loneliness of people in an alien world, the increasing alienation of individuals from themselves, and the inevitability of sin and death. However, while revealing the absurdity of the world, he was not desperate or depressed. He advocated rising up to resist in the absurdity and upholding truth and justice in despair. He pointed out a free and humanistic path for the world other than Christianity and Marxism. His courage to face the bleak life and his fearless spirit of "knowing it is impossible but doing it" made him the spokesperson of his generation and the spiritual mentor of the next generation not only in France, but also in Europe and eventually in the world after World War II.