Which of the following statements is not true of The Stranger by Camus ?

The Stranger (1942) is not a realist novel: its flat, detached first-person narration and Meursault's indifference serve Camus's philosophy of the absurd rather than a faithful social portrait of French Algeria. The other statements hold: Meursault, a Frenchman living in Algiers, shoots an Arab on a beach, the novel's two parts fall before and after the killing, and it is widely cited as an example of existentialist thought, although Camus himself preferred to speak of the absurd.