In 1962, writer Mark Esslin enjoyed composing the novel The Theater of the Absurd and quickly became a major influence on the works of many writers inspired. Esslin subsequently created plays and stories that focused on nonspecific existentialist concepts and that did not remain consistent with his ideas, rejecting “narrative continuity and the rigidity of logic.” As a result, the protagonist of these stories is often unable to contain himself in his disorderly society (“Theatre”). The writer Albert Camus gave such an interpretation of the “Absurd” by altering the idea in his belief that it is the rudimentary absence of “reasonableness” and coherence in the human personality. Camus not only attempts to show the absurd through studied deformities and consolidated solutions; it also “undermines ordinary expectations of continuity and rationality” (“The Theatre”). Camus imagines that life in his works, The Stranger and “The Myth of Sisyphus,” has no time horizon or meaning, and the strenuous effort to find such meaning where none exists is what Camus believes to be the absurd (“Albert”). The Stranger, written in 1942, is the story of a man named Maursault, who one day is presented with a telegram telling of his mother's death in an old people's home. Meursault shows no sign of grief for his mother at the funeral and soon meets a girl named Marie, who often swims with him. The following summer, Meursault helps his friend Raymond in a rape trial, kills an Arab, and spends the rest of the time fighting in court to avoid being executed by guillotine. Meursault encounters many difficulties in finding his place in society, since he is completely like him (S...... middle of the document ...... source Center. Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2007. Student Resource Center - Gold. Gale. Miami-Dade County Public High Schools. “SparkNotes: The Stranger: Themes, Motifs & Symbols.” Redirected. “Theater of the Absurd.” Page. February 22, 2009. “The Theater of the Absurd.com".. 2009 .