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There is an underlying message to Camus that I don't hear, and therefore don't understand. There may be things in the culture that I never learned. Or, it may be that he is too subtle for me. In this novel, the first person narrator Meursault is presented as an unfeeling individual who goes through the motions of life. As Camus is supposed to be an absurdist author, I don't quite understand why this is supposed to be absurd. He tries to make this unbelievable, but I think that is because it is p
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The Stranger should have been the classic French "meditation on life and what it means" novel that I read as a senior in high school. I read The Hunchback of Notre Dame instead, which I don't regret by the way. The Stranger, though, would have been a better choice because, at seventeen, it would have undoubtedly seemed fresh and would have spoken to me. Having lived with the joys of existentialism for several years now, The Stranger strikes me as anything but a stranger.
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