Couldn't remember if I read this in one of my undergrad philosophy classes. I hadn't, but now I can say that I have. I'm sure so many people have written about how ~problematic~ this book is, so I won't repeat them. It felt to me like this book conflates existentialism with treating people as dispos...
As a dilettante translator I find this book fascinating, even though I don’t read French. Literary texts are sacred and you cannot alter them; translations on the other hand are a more or less faithful reflection of the original text, but can be altered, changed, or renewed. Did Proust write "Reme...
Detachment. Misunderstood. An outsider. The first time I read Albert Camus's The Outsider (also known as The Stranger for U.S. publication), I was recommended that this was his best work. With over a little 100 over pages, divided into two parts, this is a story of Meursault, a man that doesn't conn...
When I was a lot younger one of my favourite bands was The Cure. I remember sitting in my lounge room with my friends with The Cures greatest hits ablum blaring out and as soon as the tape came to an end I would jump up, and immediately flick it over onto the otherside, and press play before my neig...
This book annoyed me so much, and I had such a difficult time placing my thoughts into words, that I haven't written a book review in two months. It just froze my process entirely. And if that's not a review in and of itself I'm not sure what is. First off, I should say that I read this book right...
This review will more or less be an attempt to summarise the notes I took in my seminar today in a way that relate specifically to Albert Camus' The Outsider. Firstly, this will help potential readers understand what the core theme of this classic work is and secondly this will help me be able to su...
I enjoyed the story. The The funeral part got me hocked. Then the second part was very good. Though I feel that I did not get the most out of this book. I'm pretty sure there's more to be gained than what I got! The question as to why he should feel anything, was very interesting, and slightly distu...
What I have read in fact is a translation by Stuart Gilbert, and I don't feel that anything perceptible was lost in translation. You have to read this book very carefully to get Camus' point. It perpetuates a certain motif of existential philosophy that many readers may not be familiar with and, th...
I did read this book a while ago & thinking I should read Camus' book on suicide first before I can gather my thought & review. But then of course I didn't finish reading that book & now The Stranger is only an image from a distant past. And the reason I remember about it again is because BBC WBC's ...
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