Exiles Outcasts Strangers

Exiles Outcasts Strangers explores how nine different outsider authors treat the theme of alienation in one of their major works. All the novels under review were written in a limited time span (1942 to 1987 approximately 50 years) and all are structured around a hero or heroine who remains culturally ethically or aesthetically distant from his/her narrative counterparts. Works discussed: Albert Camus'' L''Etranger; Richard Wright''s The Outsider; Andr Langevin''s Poussire sur la ville; Ernesto Sbato''s El tnel; V.S. Naipaul''s Guerrillas; Elie Wiesel''s Le Cinquime fils; Norbert Zongo''s Le Parachutage; Gisle Pineau''s L''Exil selon Julia and Jean Genet''s Querelle de Brest.