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A bleak tale about the lack of meaning life can seem to have
Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
To start of: I loved the scenery description of Algiers: you feel the dust and warmth when Meursault, the main character of The Stranger visits the care home where his mother died. That unfortunately is nearly the only thing that struck me positively, besides the concepts touched upon by Albert Camus in this book.
Meursault is a very detached narrator of his own de ...more
Since we're all going to die, it's obvious that when and how don't matter.
To start of: I loved the scenery description of Algiers: you feel the dust and warmth when Meursault, the main character of The Stranger visits the care home where his mother died. That unfortunately is nearly the only thing that struck me positively, besides the concepts touched upon by Albert Camus in this book.
Meursault is a very detached narrator of his own de ...more
what a hideous, perfect book.
I think a better understanding of existentialist philosophy would have enabled me to appreciate this novella. The plot is simple. A young Algerian man, having recently buried his mother, shoots a stranger he suspects of harassing a friend, a crime for which he receives a death sentence. The young man narrates his story in a detached voice which gives as much attention to observing a stranger in a restaurant as to his mother’s funeral or his act of violence. In short, it appears that life and hum
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This book is a weird ride inside the narrator's mostly surface-level thoughts. I enjoyed the fact that I had no idea what was going to happen at any point in time, but I didn't find much depth in the character, or his musings. The experience is like having a visitor's glimpse inside someone's life for a short period of time - being randomly dropped in, and then after a non-predetermined amount of time, lifted abruptly back out. Major things happen to the character but he remains nonplussed throu
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Love the sparse writing.
Discussion of joy, freedom, meaninglessness and fate.
Discussion of joy, freedom, meaninglessness and fate.
Mar 21, 2020
Sarah
marked it as to-read
Nov 26, 2020
S.L. Berry
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