The Outsider; by Albert Camus.

About a person who is emotionally untouched by much that is expected to touch one deeply, such as funerals in the family.

One wonders if the shock and novelty of this then new admission gave way to a whole cult whereby men were supposed to be untouched by emotions and uninvolved in anything in their lives of the nature that was relegated to women, unless it was about their sons, and less often, fathers.

Certainly the images that have come to prevail in west, especially west from Europe in US, and have come to be prescribed as the appropriate behaviour for the human male have been sort of unnatural, as has been the division of emotional responses deemed appropriate.

Women falling in love with the first or every man who looks at them or the babies they give birth to is as likely to not happen at all as is the emotional blankness of men about women they are involved with or married to, or their own children and parents. Often men can be caring and loving, and just as often women are likely to not have experienced emotion or have been overwhelmed by expectations as the protagonist of this work.