The Stranger in Existentialism

Nov 29, 2017 J rated it liked it

Meursault was prefigured in 1862 by Turgenev's character from Fathers and Sons, the indifferent Bazarov, and four years later by Dostoevsky's Raskolnikov from the inimitable novel, Crime and Punishment; but whatever he shares with those Russian creations, one cannot help also compare Camus' protagonist to Sartre's Antione Roquentin, from the latter's 1938 novel, Nausea. Of all these skeptical anti-heroes, Mersault is the least memorable.

Meursault is most certainly an old fashioned nihilist; eve ...more

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Sep 04, 2014 Greg rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: french-authors, favorites, literature, classic, art-of-writing, albert-camus

Read: 10 Sept. 2014

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Jul 24, 2019 Juan rated it it was amazing

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Me hizo acordar a the catcher in the rye, pero este libro es más existencialista.
Pero no sé, y me da igual.

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Jul 06, 2013 Giannis rated it really liked it

"L'Étranger" is a small book, yet it carries the burden of an astoundingly great amount of questions(and facts!) about life. Is there a point in life? Are there any standards people always struggle to maintain in order to "keep the humanity"? What about justice? Or religion? Or human relationships- marriage, friendship? Is there a point that comes with nature or people have this inner tendency to stick to rules created by their human ancestors?

***HUGE SPOILER/DO NOT KEEP ON READING***
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