
Existentialism • A philosophical novel
The Stranger is the novel with which Camus achieved his first great success, influenced by Nietzsche's philosophy, Sartre's philosophy of existentialism, and, most of all, his philosophy of the absurd.
The novel belongs to the period of late modernism (from the 1940s to the 1970s). The theme is a depiction of meaningless and absurd life and man's alienation and life as a meaningless existence ruled by an unpredictable series of coincidences.
The question to which Camus seeks an answer is how to justify existence in a world without meaning. That is, how to accept one's own helplessness in a...
Globus, 2004.Hardcover with dust jacket.