Der Fremde by Albert Camus
Published 1997 · 43,725 words · about 2 hours at an average pace
How hard is Der Fremde to read?
Der Fremde scores 16 out of 100 for difficulty on ReadingRate, making it relatively accessible. The score is a weighted composite of nine measures: four of how hard the prose is to parse, five of how hard the meaning is to extract.
Where the story of Der Fremde takes place
- Algiers, Algeria, late 1930s–early 1940s (1937 to 1942), the main setting