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Title: The Stranger means a hell of a lot.
Review: The basic problem of The Stranger isalienation. Meursalt kills a man, butdoesn't feel sorry for killing him.Why not? Is it because his mother dieda few days earlier? Is it because ofhis refusal to believe in God? May itjust be that his life is utterly meaningless?Those who read the afterword in the Penguinedition of The Stranger (The Outsider)must consider the author's explanation -'So one wouldn't be far wrong in seeingthe The Outsider as the story of a man who,without any heroic pretentions, agrees todie for the truth.' 'The Stranger doesn'tmean anything' is a lie. Why? Meursaltdoesn't think so. Secondly, Albert Camusdoesn't think so. And thirdly, thereviewer doesn't think so.
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