put before them. This is one of the points at which the classics show their superiority over lesser literature. The great writers have the ability to capture the essence of human experience. They are the voice of authentic human experience. A bumper-sticker mentality tells the world that “LIFE SUCKS; THEN YOU DIE.” But in his novel The Stranger, Albert Camus leads us to feel what it is like to live in a universe in which a person finds life meaningless.
