The Stranger in Never too Late to Read Classics

Jan 23, 2015 Sara rated it really liked it

Shelves: kindle-purchase, classics, literary-fiction

Talk about your deep and difficult novels! The story is easy, the reading is easy, the pace is fast, the understanding is complicated and in some ways unfathomable. Camus' theme of absurdity that runs through his works are present in The Stranger with other resounding comments about death, decay and disconnect.

I do not assume to have the intellect to dissect this novel and add anything new to the discussion. I feel that the antithesis of what Camus believed is the actual truth. I think we are al ...more

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Nov 27, 2020 Shirley (stampartiste) rated it it was amazing

Shelves: read-classics, challenge-bingo-2020

Camus so vividly portrayed his main character, Meursault, that the book felt more like an autobiography than a work of fiction. From the very beginning, the reader is drawn into the mind of Meursault and his reactions to his surroundings. After reading The Stranger, I read that Camus wrote this book in Paris during the Nazi occupation, and his perspective of the French during this time was one of resignation and inevitability. Camus could not have portrayed these feelings any better into his cha ...more

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Jan 25, 2021 K M Laume added it

Great wee read. Makes you consider the spectrum of human personalities and the uniqueness of individuals, how different people react/respond in different ways and that there is no one right way to be a human. I really enjoyed the scene with the annoying priest and wanted to shout at him just as much. I would have liked to find out a little more about the victim and his family but that’s just my curiosity!

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