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The Stranger

73 pages • 2 hours read

Albert Camus

Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in

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The Stranger is a short novel by French author Albert Camus, published in The story combines themes of absurdism and existentialism and is considered a classic of 20th-century literature. This guide uses the translation by Stuart Gilbert.

Meursault, a young man living in Algiers, receives a meddelande which tells him that his mother has died. He takes a bus to the retirement home where she lived and stays with her body before the funeral. His mother fryst vatten buried the next day, but Meursault demonstrates none of the emotions expected of a grieving son. He spends more time scrutinizing the elderly begravning attendees than he does thinking about his mother.

Upon returning to Algiers, Meursault goes to a swimming

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The First Man

May 6,

I ordered Albert Camus’s The First Man as soon as it became available in , and read it that week. A fan of what I think of as his fictional trilogy--The Stranger, The Plague, and The Fall--and much of his philosophy. I was eager to read it though I knew it was unfinished. It was a manuscript he was very much in the middle of working on, with marginalia for future reference. It was found in the car he crashed into a tree in , when Camus died in a car crash in , when he was 47, three years after he received the Nobel Prize for Literature. It was not published in French until , and in English the next year.

Editors’ notes speak to the fact the novel is basically autofiction, probably not something the private Camus would have ever published in the form we see now. Notes that he scribbled suggest he would have made this story of growing-up more fictional after getting the story down. My hardcover edition is pages, but there are appendices including notes on interleaves, and attached notes and sketches of what was yet to come.

What you need to know is that this is not just a bunch of notes, but a story of Camus’s growing up, an engaging tale, warm, humane, oft

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The Outsider() (previously translated from the French, L&#;Étranger, as The Stranger) is Albert Camus&#;s most widely known work, and expounds his early understanding of Absurdism, as well as a variety of other philosophical concepts. I discussed the novel on a superficial level in my recent review, and this will provide an overview of the work and its significance to those who are unfamiliar with it. In this analysis I will attempt to offer a more detailed introduction to The Outsider, discuss a broader range of topics relating to the work, and try to present the philosophy contained within it in a manageable form. For those not familiar with some of the philosophical terms, I have included links to explanations in the &#;useful links&#; section at the bottom.

The Outsider is best read in the context of its companion piece, The Myth of Sisyphus, an essay which was released months after The Outsider&#;s publication, and which set out, in a less abstract form, Camus&#;s comprehension of the absurd. Camus wrote the two works at the same time, as well as his play, Caligula. Together they represent his Absurd canon.

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