The universe does not care for us.

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	• The Stranger Albert Camus Vintage, 1989 - 144 pages average customer review:based on 519 reviews view larger image
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Excellent piece of Literature

After reading this book, it made me realize a lot of things about the present state of writing that I hadn't known. It was funny in many parts, although I wouldn't claim that it was as thorough as some other books deal with this subject. It was sort of banal in many ways, but definitely worth reading. What I mean by some of my previous statements is that in many literary journals writers try to tackle the banal but it comes of as boring. This book never does, it maintains a dramatic touch, and a bit of suspense to go along with the banal.

The Stranger

Traditionally this is considered a book about alienation. To me it tells the tragedy of having feelings considered alien by the society in which you live.

After killing a man, Meursault is taken before people who shamelessly express their desire to judge him by his personality rather than by what he did or didn't. Even the fact that he was not seen to cry at his mother's funeral becomes an evidence of his guilt. At the same time when all society turns against him in repulsion for his diversity, we start to see the honesty and naivety inherent in his thoughts and decisions. His realization at the end is genial.

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Surreal Classic

This book is a true classic. It is very well written, concise, and accessible. It is a first person narrative of a seemingly ordinary Frenchman living in Algeria who finds himself involved in a murder. It is amazing and disturbing how easy the reader can be drawn in and caught up in the protagonist's detached view of the world.

The universe does not care for us.

The universe does not care for us.

For many, this is a daunting realization.

"The Stranger" is a fictional account of a senseless murder committed by a man that knows he is alive only through sensory experiences. Everything else, be it his mother's death, his misogynistic neighbor, or even the simple sunlight, means nothing. It has no bearing on Meursault. It does not affect him. It does not concern him. He continues living without consequence.

Until he visits the beach.

It is there that, through unfortunate chance, Meursault murders a hated Arab; yet Meursault knows not why this is, both the hatred and the murder. But it does not stop him.

It is at this point where Camus introduces an absurdist element to "The Stranger." Once ensnared in the legal system, Meursault's character undergoes a series of transformations at the hands of others. But Meursault the man, Meusault the persona, remains much the same.

Unchanged.

Camus highlights the banality of persecution, impending death, and salvation, stripping these elements of meaning and instead mocking them as absurd and, ultimately, meaningless.

And for some, this knowledge is salvation.

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