A character created by this author opens himself "to the gentle indifference of the world",  and hopes that a large crowd will attend his execution.
A character created by this author opens himself "to the gentle indifference of the world",  and hopes that a large crowd will attend his execution. This author was fictionalized as the editor Henri Perron in The Mandarins. In a novel by this author, an unnamed character follows a judge-penitent home from a bar, and is shown a stolen panel of the Ghent Altarpiece. The narrator of another novel by this author visits Masson's bungalow, where the intense heat on the beach compels him to brutally shoot an Arab. That novel by this author opens with the sentence: "Maman died today."  For 10 points, name this French author of The Fall, who wrote about Meursault in The Stranger. 
A character created by this author opens himself "to the gentle indifference of the world",  and hopes that a large crowd will attend his execution.
Albert Camus