Camus "The Outsider" or "The Stranger" or "L'Etranger'

    For years, I have thought of myself as one of a small, discriminating group whose members, touched by a common emotional quirk, regarded Albert Camus's L'Etranger (The Outsider) as the most important and influential book they have read. Imagine my distress, on reading last Thursday's Guardian, to discover that a whole swathe of English male media types, academics and students were claiming similar intimacy with the book, and attesting to its significance for them.

Full article here - 'The Guardian'  UK newspaper.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2006/apr/12/books.comment