The Stranger by Albert Camus

Hailed as a classic philosophical novel in absurdism, Albert Camus' The Stranger (1942) charts the first-person narrative of an emotionally-detached Meursault and his negligence of religion and social norms.

Apart from the philosophical rigor behind the novel, the reading experience itself is rather underwhelming. Many of my students were initially confused and unable to write an analytical Paper 2 on it. Setting absurdism aside, the best way to approach this text from a Paper 2-point of view is to address Camus' critiques on the hypocrisy of judiciary system and colonial anti-Arab sentiment.