by Albert Camus
Note: The review below was taken directly from my Goodreads account. Qu'importait si, accusé de meurtre, il était exécuté pour n'avoir pas pleuré à l'enterrement de sa mère?The majority of the literary world knows what L'étranger is about. And, damn, I didn't think it would be as sad as it turned...
I read this years ago. Or maybe it was decades. I don't know.Let me start by saying I'm so glad this was written in the 1940's before Meursault could be fashionably slapped with an Asperger's diagnosis. Because back then we looked at individuals' outlooks and approaches to life as part of a larger p...
First read this in my late teen. The 3 stars are correct. The alienation, the void of Meursault's life are what shine out for me. But the violence against women, the animal abuse, the racism even if they were in character and of the time just made me recoil. I had forgotten about them or I was too y...
Strange, emotionally damaged man, lacking in affect and with an ambiguous attitude to religion, falls into bad company and ends up shooting an Arab for reasons that aren't clear even to himself. It was hot, and he wasn't thinking straight.Now why would George W Bush not merely read this shortly afte...
I read this book in French at school and we immediately clicked.(maybe I am an existentialist at heart?) The gentle, slightly ironic style of language, the Algerian setting, and the inexorable flow of the story all combine to create a unique experience.
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