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| The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) | 
 enlarge | Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  56 reviews
Sales Rank: 4174
Media: Paperback
Edition: New edition
Pages: 128
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2
Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0141182504
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9780141182506
ASIN: 0141182504
Publication Date: February 24, 2000
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 Read this book April 28, 2002
1 out of 4 found this review helpful
A short and extremely absorbing study of the trouble that the truth can get you into. If you didn't cry at your mothers funeral look out. The condemned mans rant to the priest shows Shakespeare where he went wrong. If you don't read any other book in your life read this one.
 the tale of a man who seeks the truth April 22, 2002
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
the outsider questions the morality of society, condemming those who live by different emotions to be 'outsiders'. Throughout the prevailing of the book, we are confronted with various events resulting in differing opinions in each section. I changed my viewing of Mersault several times, and only with the conclusion of the book was I able to finnally decide my opinion on his character. Some may interpret him as a cold, un-imaginative character. He is however a man who refuses to lie about his feelings to satisfy others, and to meet the expectations of familiar societies. I found myself somewhat frustrated when he was being prosecuted; it seemed he was being prosecuted because of his character, rather than the crime he commited. The punishment he faces would to most be despairing, but Mersault is surprisingly calm and curious about his fate. He seeks the truth, and is prepared to die in order to find it.
The one book that you must read April 14, 2002
5 out of 6 found this review helpful
I read this 15 years ago - and still rate it as the best book that I've ever read. Its probably shaped much of the way that I see things - not consciously but in the way that all great works of art do - by making you question everything
il ne dit que la verite January 8, 2002
1 out of 2 found this review helpful
It is ironic that the very qualities which we hold as important in our society are responsible for Meursaulst's downfall. The book serves to highlight the expediency of lies and the necessity of self-preservation by what may be described as less than honest means. Camus's style is deliberately abrupt and the sparsity of the prose shows Meursault's own apathy. Thought provoking stuff.
Simply amazing! December 24, 2001
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
Have you ever felt like an outsider? Camus brings to our attention how one man can face the benign indifference of the world and create a world of his own. He brings forward the suggestion that a man could spend but a day in the world and have enough things to think about to live in a dungeon for a 100 years.
Being only 15 myself I thought this book might be quite heavy but it's incredible. I read it in two days and it has greatly influenced my thoughts.
It's amazing,read it.
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