Facts about The Stranger

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   Originally published in French as L'Étranger, The Stranger has been translated into dozens of languages and remains one of the best-selling French-language novels ever written.

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   In 1955, philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre praised Camus's novel as a masterwork of existential literature, though the two intellectuals had famously broken their friendship four years earlier over political disagreements.

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   The 1942 French novel explores existentialism through a protagonist who remains emotionally detached even after committing murder, establishing The Stranger as a cornerstone text in absurdist philosophy.

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   Meursault, the protagonist of The Stranger, commits his murder on a beach in Algiers during the second part of the novel's 120-page narrative.

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   Albert Camus wrote The Stranger in 1942 while living in occupied France during World War II.

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