The Outsider Author: [France] Albert Camus Publisher: Jiangsu Phoenix Literature and Art Publishing House Original title: L'Étranger

◆If you feel out of place in the crowd, be sure to read "The Outsider"!

◆The masterpiece of Albert Camus, the Nobel Prize winner in Literature! The masterpiece of French existentialism, the masterpiece of French absurd philosophy, and an immortal masterpiece in the history of literature!

◆In the history of human literature, The Outsider shows the absurdity of the world with its unique perspective, becoming a great work of epoch-making significance in the entire Western literary world in the 20th century. "The Outsider" has thus become one of the most classic characters and most important keywords in the entire Western literature/philosophy.

◆Top 10 classic opening lines in literary history: Today, my mother died. Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.

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1. An original 10,000-word introduction by a French expert on Camus and PhD in literature from the Sorbonne University in Paris.

2. Korean designers created original "absurd" color inserts, vividly recreating classic scenes from "The Outsider".

3. A new translation by a new translator who studied in France, showing the "cold" writing style of "The Outsider".

4. Carefully collected materials on Camus, to be read in conjunction with The Outsider and its introduction: a) Camus’s handwritten preface to The Outsider published in the 1956 American University Edition; b) Camus’ speech at the Nobel Prize Ceremony in 1957; c) Camus’s photographs.

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◆A worldwide bestseller for over 70 years, "The Outsider" has become the number one best-selling pocket book in France with sales of 7 million copies to date!

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【Content Introduction】

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Meursault, a clerk in a company, was charged with murder by the court, but was eventually sentenced to death because he "did not cry at his mother's funeral."

(In our society, anyone who does not cry at his mother's funeral is liable to death. - Camus)

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【Celebrity recommendations and reviews】

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◆ Camus withstood the historical trend in the 20th century and inherited the long-standing awakening literature alone. With his tenacious, strict, pure, solemn and enthusiastic humanism, he launched an uncertain war against the vulgarity and ugliness of the contemporary era. —— Sartre (French writer and philosopher)

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◆ As an artist and moralist, he (Camus) vividly embodies the moral conscience of modern people through an existentialist's perspective on the absurdity of the world, and dramatically expresses the fundamental issues of human existence such as freedom, justice and death. ——The award speech of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature

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◆Camus has a soul that is constantly exploring and thinking. ——William Faulkner (American writer, winner of the 1949 Nobel Prize in Literature)

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◆I can't think of any other modern writer who can evoke love except Camus. He died in 1960, and his death was felt as a personal loss by the entire literary world. -Susan Sontag (American writer and art critic)

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◆ (The Outsider is) a perfect and meaningful work that appears at a historical juncture... It indicates a break and represents a new emotion. No one is opposed to it. Everyone is conquered by it and almost falls in love with it. - Roland Barthes (French writer and literary critic)

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◆A classic work, a rational work. ——Sartre (French writer and philosopher)

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◆Camus's works are always closely linked to the pursuit of justice. ——André Malraux (French writer)

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◆A sign that "a true writer is born". ——Marcel Arlan (French writer)

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◆ (The Outsider) stands at the forefront of contemporary novels. ——Henry Hale (French literary critic)

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◆ Throughout the novel (The Outsider), Camus wrote it in an extremely calm manner, without showing any excitement from beginning to end. The language is completely expressionless, with many punctuations, and it is almost impossible to tell what the characters are thinking. It is even a bit verbose, but all the details are meaningful - it is always calm and restrained, and the author's emotions and feelings are firmly controlled, almost airtight. ——Ma Yuan (contemporary Chinese writer)

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◆Whenever I have nothing to do, I will read Camus's "The Outsider". ——Ma Boyong (contemporary Chinese writer)

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◆Camus's works are a rare literary voice that emerged from the post-war chaos, full of a humanitarian voice that is both harmonious and measured. ——The New York Times

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◆Camus is a great thinker. His legacy to people is not only the revelation of the absurdity of human beings in The Myth of Sisyphus and The Outsider, but more importantly, how people should deal with absurdity. —— Wenhui Daily

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◆Camus’s greatness lies in the fact that he offers a myriad of possibilities for interpretation in a thin little book. — Douban netizen Moss Dayao

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◆You watch the world with a cold eye, but you still can't escape the malice brought by the world. ——Douban netizen Qiaodou Madai

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◆This book is simply written and reads quite quickly, but the depth that Camus conveys in this simple way is shocking. ——Goodreads user Ryan R