INTRODUCTION: Stepping into the labyrinth of Albert Camus’ The Outsider feels like waking up in a world where every expectation quietly dissolves. One moment, everything seems firmly anchored in logic and routine. The next, familiar patterns unravel into the utterly unforeseen. What makes Albert Camus’s The Outsider so compelling—especially for readers and scholars of absurdist theatre—is how it captures the universal feeling of estrangement. It explores that sensation of drifting through society, questioning whether meaning is inherent or...