The Outsider Jane Birkin Steeped in references to classic

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The Outsider Jane Birkin Steeped in references to classicThe classic existentialist novel, in a wonderful new translation by Sandra Smith, now in paperback. Meursault leads an unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenge the fundamental values of society a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. For Meursault, this is an