Der Fremde

I realized that I had destroyed the balance of the day, the unusual silence of a beach where I had been happy. Then I shot four more times at a lifeless body, into which the bullets penetrated without being seen. And it was as if four short knocks on the door of misfortune. The story of a young Frenchman in Algeria, made a murderer by a ridiculous coincidence, became a literary sensation in occupied France in 1942 and marked the literary breakthrough for Albert Camus.