Book Review: The outsider - A. Camus

A pleasant read? Yes, sure. Did it blow me away? Not really.
It is a sad story of solitude and emptiness really, well written, quick to read. But that's it. I am sure that at the time it was published it was innovative and out of the scheme,  a pioneer. Today this book is worth reading as a classic and I don't know what I was expecting but it didn't "wow" me.

Overall rating:  6,5   Plot: 6   Writing style: 7   Cover:  4

Title: The outsider

Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Pages: 127
Publication year: 1970 (first published 1942)

The Plot:

Set in Camus' native Algeria, this story centers around Meursault. The young French-Algerian leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life until his involvement in a violent incident calls into question the fundamental values of society.

The Author:
Albert Camus (Algeria 1913- France 1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Of semi-proletarian parents, early attached to intellectual circles of strongly revolutionary tendencies, with a deep interest in philosophy, he came to France at the age of twenty-five.
He is best known for such novels as L’Étranger (1942; The Stranger), La Peste (1947; The Plague), and La Chute (1956; The Fall) and for his work in leftist causes. He received the 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism.