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Too many young or neophyte readers come to Camus really seeking someone like Herman Hesse. Camus seems exotic and rogue-ish; an outsider; his 'existentialism' (in itself a mistaken label) is so often mistaken for a tacit 'approval' of aloofness, remoteness; iconoclasm; emotional detachment and alieninity. All of these postures appeal strongly to teen readers; adolescents; and intellectual dilettantes. Thus, everyone casually associates Camus with 'The Stranger' and other works of stylish abstrac
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