And when the bell rang again and the door of the small room opened, the silence of the hall rose up to me, that silence and that unique feeling that came over me when I noticed that the journalist had turned his eyes away. And I did not look towards Marie. I did not have time for that, because the President told me that my head would be cut off in a public square in the name of the French people... (The Stranger) is the first novel by Albert Camus, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. He is also the author of (The Plague) and (A Happy Death).