TY - BOOK AU - Camus, Albert TI - The stranger SN - 9780679720201 U1 - 843.914 PY - 1988/// CY - Newyork PB - Vintage KW - Murderers -- Algeria -- Fiction. KW - Alienation (Social psychology) -- Algeria -- Fiction. KW - Algeria -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction N2 - When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent imprisonment and trial are puzzling and absurd. The apparently amoral Meursault--who puts little stock in ideas like love and God--seems to be on trial less for his murderous actions and more for what the authorities believe is his deficient character ER -