The Outsider - Albert CamusIn The Outsider, his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much