Camus: how to maintain one's dignity in an indifferent universe?

Albert Camus, L'Etranger (The Stranger or The Outsider)
Folio French Edition: 183 pages
English translations vary from 130-160 pages

Do we forget to create our own meaning in the face of life's absurdity? How do external influences shape our choices? Are existentialism's conclusions freeing or a burden? Let's explore together these questions by discussing Camus's unempathetic, seeming antihero Meursault, who murders an unnamed man in Algiers, Algeria.