![]() ![]() I was expecting something more like the absurdism of “Don’t look up” (the movie) and its critique on society, but this was a little more… apathetic nihilism in my mind. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. If you’ve read Malcom Gladwell’s “Talking to Strangers”, it’s essentially the same logic that condemned Amanda Knox (except she was actually innocent), but explored more in-depth and played out in fiction.Īs for being “absurdist”… maybe for some definition of “absurd”. Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. Part 1: Meursault learns of the death of his mother, who has been living in a retirement home. Its theme and outlook are often cited as examples of Camus' philosophy of the absurd and existentialism. The circumstances under which he kills someone are supposed to be extreme and forgivable enough to not be a big deal (I guess…) but it’s his lack of conformity that does him in. The Stranger is a 1942 novel by French author Albert Camus. But this isn’t the “intended” reading of this book.įrom a slightly different historical lens, the book is about a man who’s largely “harmless” but doesn’t conform to, or think about things the way everyone else does. His victim was arguably just trying to keep his sister away from harm at the protagonist’s friends hands as well. Reading this book in 2022, it’s about a man that we would probably classify as a psychopath or sociopath who murders a native person in the land he’s actively colonizing. ![]()
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