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First published over forty years ago, it made its youthful author England's most controversial intellectual.

The Outsider is the seminal work on alienation, creativity and the modern mind-set. Sartre paid tribute to him in his obituary notice: 'Camus could never cease to be one of the principal forces in our cultural domain, nor to represent, in his own way, the history of France and of this century.Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here. Much of Camus's work is available in Penguin. An instant bestseller, the book received widespread critical acclaim, and has been translated and published in over thirty countries. His last novel, Le Premier Homme ( The First Man), unfinished at the time of his death, appeared for the first time in 1994.

He was killed in a road accident in 1960. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. During the late 1950s Camus renewed his active interest in the theatre, writing and directing stage adaptations of William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun and Dostoyevsky's The Possessed. After the war he devoted himself to writing and established an international reputation with such books as La Peste ( The Plague 1947), Les Justes ( The Just 1949) and La Chute ( The Fall 1956). He edited and contributed to the underground newspaper Combat, which he had helped to found. His first two important books, L'Etranger ( The Outsider) and the long essay Le Mythe de Sisyphe ( The Myth of Sisyphus), were published when he returned to Paris.Īfter the occupation of France by the Germans in 1941, Camus became one of the intellectual leaders of the Resistance movement. He went to Paris, where he worked on the newspaper Paris Soir before returning to Algeria. His early essays were collected in L'Envers et l'endroit ( The Wrong Side and the Right Side) and Noces ( Nuptials). He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers, and became a journalist as well as organizing the Théâtre de l'équipe, a young avant-garde dramatic group. His childhood was poor, although not unhappy. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.Īlbert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger- now one of the most widely read novels of this century- in 1942.