The Outsider: Tour Guide to Algeria
The Outsider is published in 45 different languages, and is not only classified as World Literature, but also a great piece of World Literature in regards to the second requirement of World Literature: "a piece of World Literature must represent the land of origin and its culture." Throughout the novel by Albert Camus, we learn many things about his native country, Algeria, and the people that lived in Algiers. We are given a short yet detailed tour, a better understanding, of a world that most of us know next to nothing about.
The setting in The Outsider is very descriptive, and conveniently reflects Algiers as Camus knew it. Camus spent several years living in a poverty-stricken community of Algiers during his childhood. Most of chapter two describes the street Meursault lived on, which was modelled after the Rue de Lyon in the Belcourt section of Algiers. We are told about the way some people spent their lives in Algiers back in early......
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