《局外人》常常被看作是加缪描写荒诞的代表性作品。加缪曾经把《局外人》的主题概括为一句话:“在我们的社会里,任何在母亲下葬时不哭的人都有被判死刑的危险。”小说主人公默而索在被判死刑之前,是一个疏离于当下社会的局外人,在无意识地向人开枪之后,逐渐明白了自己的处境。被以荒诞的理由判处死刑后,默而索进行了一次决绝的精神行动,世界的荒诞似乎被消解,默而索的悲剧也上升为西西弗斯神话意义上的真正的悲剧。 “Outsider” is often seen as Camus’s absurd representative work. Camus once summed up the topic of “outsider” as saying: “In our society, anyone who does not cry when his mother’s funeral is in danger of being sentenced to death.” "The novel’s hero Mourinho was sentenced to death Before that, he was an outsider alienated from the current society and gradually came to understand his own situation after he shot people unconsciously. After being sentenced to death for absurd reasons, silently pursuing a decisive mental act, the absurdity of the world seems to be resolved. The silent tragedy also rises to the real tragedy of Sisyphus in the mythology.