India, April 21 -- The Stranger by Albert Camus was published in 1942. This novel explores the pessimistic vision of life thoroughly.According to Camus, the human life and existence lacks meaning and the failure to accept this leads us to the absurdity of looking for a rational explanation where there is none.
The protagonist of the book, Meursault commits a crime and subsequently fails to conform to the social expectations about how he should behave. The readers certainly are horrified by his emotionless and detached descriptions and are stunned by his failure to cry when his mother dies. The terrifying irrationality of his actions and the total lack of order in the novel are deliberately reflected and presented by Camus as a glance from ...