What Do I Read Next?
• The Stranger, Camus’s debut novel from 1942, features Mersault, the protagonist, who stands trial for the seemingly pointless murder of an Arab. He is judged as much for his emotional detachment and social isolation as for his crime. This novel introduces Camus’s themes of absurdism and alienation.
• The Plague, Camus’s second novel published in 1947, narrates the experiences of several men facing a plague in the Algerian city of Oran. It introduces the theme of revolt.
• Jean-Paul Sartre’s existentialist novel Nausea, published in 1938, explores several of Sartre’s philosophical ideas, including the sense of meaninglessness and the individual's responsibility to achieve an authentic existence.
• ‘‘Zaabalawi’’ is a renowned story by Nobel Prize-winning Egyptian author Naguib Mahfouz. Published in 1963, it follows a quest to find a holy man who can offer both physical healing and spiritual salvation to the ailing narrator. Mahfouz employs some Absurdist techniques and emphasizes individual experience within a social context rather than an isolated one.
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