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Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges 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 insult to his reason
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The Myth of Sisyphus

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by Arthur Schopenhauer ...

Translated by J. A. Cantacuzène ...

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by Жант-Поль Сартр ...

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Series series SUNY series, Intersections: Philosophy and Critical Theory
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