Lack of order in The Stranger (L'outsider) by Albert Camus and NauseaNausea by Jean-Paul Sartre, by Jean-Paul Sartre, and Lo stranger, by Albert Camus, refuse to impose order on their events by not using psychology, hierarchies, coherent narratives or cause-effect relationships. Nausea refuses to order its events by not inscribing them in psychology or in a cause of existence, and contrasts itself with a text by Balzac that explains its events. Nausea resists the traditional strategy of including the past to predict a character's future. Instead, it focuses on the succession of gifts, which troubles social constructions such as “stories” and “adventures.” The Stranger resists traditional categories of order by not dividing Meursault's body and soul, or body and mind. He denies the order of cause and effect by providing no motive for the Arab's murder and resists a reductive reading of himself as a historical case of a "monster." The novel contrasts his refusal to interpret with the coherent narrative created by prosecutors. The Stranger and the Nausea explore similar strategies as they interrogate ways of seeing the world without a system of interpretive illusions. Nausea refuses to give order to its events, choosing not to justify them with psychology or cause. Roquentin finds himself unable to pick up a piece of paper, for no apparent physical reason. However, he refuses to psychoanalyze the event. He writes that he will not deal with “secrets or states of mind,” nor with “playing with inner life” (9). When he cannot pick up the paper, he decides that no explanation is necessary: ​​he simply decides "I couldn't" (10). By not assigning psychology, Roquentin lets the event have a gratuitous existence. Likewise,...... half of the paper... is contrasted with an internal text that uses interpretation to give order to world events. Nausea contrasts its denial of cause and psychology with Eugenie Grandet's section, and The Stranger contrasts its refusal to assign a cause to the murder with the prosecutor's coherent narrative. Both incorporate free events and refuse to provide an interpretation of them. Roquentin refuses to explain why he is unable to pick up the piece of paper in Nausea, and Meursault finds no means, or need, to interpret the murder of the Arab in The Stranger. Both novels explore ways of seeing the world without reducing it to a comforting but illusory system of order. Works Cited Camus, Albert. The Stranger, trans. Matthew Ward. New York: Random House, Inc., 1988. Sartre, Jean-Paul. Nausea. Trans. Lloyd Alexander. NY: New Directions, 1964.