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Short and readable, this unusual story explores a state of mind unlike what one ordinarily encounters. The thought-provoking tale keeps readers asking why Mersault, the protagonist, thinks and acts so differently from other people.
The story builds up around a fictional crime that occurs during World War II in the city of Algiers. Mersault seems unaware of either his freedom to choose or his responsibility for those choices. An existential link holds the two states together: There can be no free ...more
The story builds up around a fictional crime that occurs during World War II in the city of Algiers. Mersault seems unaware of either his freedom to choose or his responsibility for those choices. An existential link holds the two states together: There can be no free ...more
The Stranger represents a working example of life according to Camus' existential philosophy. The book is short (my edition had app. 165 pages), and the characters are not fully developed. However, I do not think this was Camus' intention. I would suggest that a the book makes more sense if the reader is familiar with Camus' philosophy of the absurd, or as it put forth in similar existentialist philosophies such as J. Sartre.
Having a background in Camus' philosophy, I think, gives the book a gr ...more
Having a background in Camus' philosophy, I think, gives the book a gr ...more
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