What is the French title of Albert Camus's novel "The Stranger"?

The French title of Albert Camus's novel "The Stranger" is "L'Étranger." The title can also be translated into English as "The Outsider," a version traditionally used in some British editions.

Camus's French-language novella was published by Gallimard in 1942. It follows Meursault, an emotionally detached man living in French Algeria, whose life changes dramatically after his mother's funeral and a killing on an Algiers beach. The book's spare first-person narration and focus on alienation helped make it a central work in discussions of absurdism.

The accents and apostrophe in "L'Étranger" are part of the standard French title, but the English title is not a literal word-for-word guide to every edition. British publishers initially preferred "The Outsider" to avoid confusion with another translated novel, while American editions used "The Stranger." The other options are French titles of different Camus works: "La Peste" is "The Plague," "La Chute" is "The Fall," and "Noces" is "Nuptials."