The Outsider Jane Birkin a photograph has the power

a photograph has the power to evoke emotion

Steeped in references to classic crime from Christie to Chesterton to Poe

follow the tale of a curious boy

with newly written liner notes

Having lost a magic amulet

The Outsider Jane Birkin a photograph has the powerThe classic existentialist novel, in a wonderful new translation by Sandra Smith, now in paperback. Meursault leads an unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenge the fundamental values of society a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. For Meursault, this is an