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How important to our reading of Albert Camus’s The Outsider is the novel’s setting in colonial Algeria? Does an awareness of this setting make the novel more or less ‘universal’ in its resonance?
(No Less than 2500 words)
The work will be penalised if you do not address and answer the question you have chosen, or if you do not demonstrate your own engagement with, and understanding of, the set texts/films. Where appropriate, you must also show engagement with relevant secondary literature, which should include appropriate citations, including page references and/or precise web addresses. Your reference to the set works should include page references or timings. (For The Outsider, you should refer to the Penguin translation, or to an appropriate French edition, e.g. Gallimard Folio.)
