Sunday, March 3, 2013

The Stranger


Albert Camus                                Photo Cite
My favourite book from Grade 12 French class was L'etranger or The Stranger. I recently found an English version online. The first line of the book says it all.
"MOTHER died today."
No emotion, nothing. It is a book about an existentialist, someone who believes in experiencing things, stresses the importance of choices and believes that all there is, is right now. This belief basically makes everything meaningless and in this book Meursault the main character does not do anything without a reason to do so or without his environment impacting him.
His relationship with his girlfriend in the book is not typical in the least. As is his relationships with everyone else.
Click HERE to read it.

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