What a strange book. But like in a good way? The Stranger by Albert Camus came across my radar as one of the classic books that I had yet to read. It was also really short and I was pretty interested in that for obvious reasons. As you start to learn about our narrator Meursault you realize he is a conduit for the theory of existentialism and is the primary vehicle for bringing it into the lexicon in the mid 20th century. Existentialism is a philosophical theory which emphasizes the existence of the individual person as a free and responsible agent determining their own development through acts of the will. I got that from Google. The way I understand it through the story in The Stranger is that people are all able to do whatever they will, and have the unique power to make rational decisions in an irrational world. It is the theory that your actions determine your development and those actions are put into the absurd world for reckoning. Decisions are made by our narrator Meursault and the reckoning comes. Interesting read if you are like philosophy and learning about existentialism.