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THE OUTSIDER is the first book of a writer, now in his middle thirties, who played a notable part in the French Resistance Movement, who edited the daily paper, Combat, and whose name has been closely linked with Jean Paul Sartre in the forefront of the new philosophical and realistic school of French literature. As well as this novel, Albert Camus has produced between 1942 and 1944 two plays, Caligula and Le Malentendu, and a book of essays, Le Mythe de Sisyphe. But he has an even more distinctive quality which colours all his work. He is an Algerian

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