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Vol. 2(6), pp. 73-86, June 2014 DOI: 10.14662/IJELC2014.024 International Journal of English Copy©right 2014 Literature and Culture Author(s) retain the copyright of this article ISSN: 2360-7831©2014 Academic Research Journals /IJELC/Index.htm Review Psychological Interpretation of the novel The Stranger by Camus R.Gnanasekaran Department of Linguistics, Puducherry Institute of Linguistics and Culture, Lawspet, Puducherry, 605008, India. E-mail: gnanasekaranpdy@ Accepted 6 June 2014 Of all the critical approaches to literature, the psychological has been one of the most controversial and for many readers the least appreciated. Yet, for all the difficulties involved in its application to interpretive analysis, the psychological approach can be fascinating and rewarding. This psychological interpretation is an excellent tool for reading between the lines. The proposed work titled “Psychological Interpretation of Camus’s The Stranger” aims to explore the consciousness of the author and his work. It was published in July 1942 and a few month later Le Mythe de sissyphe [The Myth of Sissyphus] an essay that raises the problem of how to live in a world without clear meaning. His early works are based on the assumption that there are no absolute moral values that life is a matter of living from day to day, trying to find happiness. Albert Camus through this novel The Stranger brings out various concepts like existentialism, nothingness, death of god etc. what the dissertation aims to