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Abkhazia, Albania, or Algeria (November 2018)
By Mariah Roze · 32 posts · 145 views
By Mariah Roze · 32 posts · 145 views
last updated Nov 10, 2017 09:48PM
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Bizarre. Baffling. Brilliant. When I can think of more to add to this confounding literary form and structure, I'll be back...
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The story is bizarre, the main character baffling, and the structure brilliant. I’m reading Matthew Ward’s translation of The Stranger and in his Translator’s Note, Ward states that Camus acknowledged employing an “American method” when writing this novel: “short, precise sentences; the depiction of a character ostensibly without consciousn ...more
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The story is bizarre, the main character baffling, and the structure brilliant. I’m reading Matthew Ward’s translation of The Stranger and in his Translator’s Note, Ward states that Camus acknowledged employing an “American method” when writing this novel: “short, precise sentences; the depiction of a character ostensibly without consciousn ...more
I read this as part of a Read the World challenge for Algeria. For me, this was one of those that I didn't really 'get', I felt like there was supposed to be some deeper philosophical message that I wasn't seeing and to be honest that just annoyed me!
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This book was exactly the perfect length!
The ending was beautiful. The book left me with a feeling of emptiness.
I loved the raw, unemotional and brutal honesty of the Meursalt. His belief in the meaningless of life and his numb unemotional actions and reactions are frustrating at times but are somewhat relatable.
The ending was beautiful. The book left me with a feeling of emptiness.
I loved the raw, unemotional and brutal honesty of the Meursalt. His belief in the meaningless of life and his numb unemotional actions and reactions are frustrating at times but are somewhat relatable.
So it was a good read.though tprovoking .and confusing,strange,
At the end I am left to wonder what it is that I feel .I don't hate the narrator.though I felt sorry for him at times and pity at others.
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At the end I am left to wonder what it is that I feel .I don't hate the narrator.though I felt sorry for him at times and pity at others.
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