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The Stranger (L'Etranger, 1942) is Albert Camus's first novel and the clearest statement of his philosophy of the absurd, following Meursault, an Algerian clerk whose flat, affectless account of his own life culminates in a killing he can barely explain even to himself. Its opening line, 'Mother died today,' is among the most famous in twentieth century fiction.
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At roughly 36,000 words and 159 printed pages, The Stranger is conventionally classified as a novella rather than a full novel.
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The original French-language first edition of the novella was published on 19 May 1942, by Gallimard
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The Stranger... is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus.
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