Shortly after the funeral Meursault agrees to help his neighbour, Raymond Sintès, seek revenge on a Moorish ex-girlfriend whom he suspects has been unfaithful. What makes the protagonist so interesting is his refusal to conform to the moral code of society both at the time of his mother’s death and during the events that follow thereafter. The central character is an Algerian named Meursault whose fate the tale follows in the wake of his mother’s death. Thus when I saw that Rosanna Boscawen from Picador had chosen it for a feature on books to read in under a week, it swiftly moved to the top of my reading pile. It was first recommended to me by one of my very best friends Tim, and then a week or so later I read an interview with Helen Walsh in which she said she drew inspiration from The Outsider when writing her most recent novel The Lemon Grove. I often find that once a book is brought to my attention that it suddenly appears to be everywhere most recently this happened with The Outsider by Albert Camus.
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