“The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward’s translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus’s stoical anti-hero and devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity.” –from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie/5(K). The Stranger is a novel by Albert Camus, often cited as a prime example of Camus' philosophy of the absurd and existentialism. The story's protagonist Meursault is an indifferent French Algerian, who hardly partakes of the traditional Mediterranean culture.4/5(K). The Stranger is Albert Camus’s first novel, published in It follows the life of Meursault, a French Algerian whose apathetic responses to life get him in trouble socially and eventually get him killed. The novel is concerned with the absurd and touches on the French colonization of Algeria.
The Stranger is not merely one of the most widely read novels of the 20th century, but one of the books likely to outlive it. Written in , Camus's compelling and troubling tale of a disaffected, apparently amoral young man has earned a durable popularity (and remains a staple of U.S. high school literature courses) in part because it reveals so vividly the anxieties of its time. You may be offline or with limited connectivity. Download. In the novel, The Stranger, by Albert Camus, moral issues of universal irrationality, human life meaninglessness, and obsession with the physical world are addressed to reflect on the stand of nihilism and absurdism. Universal or rationality is based on the human's futile attempt to obtain original order when actually none exists.
‘The Stranger’ by Albert Camus tells the story of an exceedingly average man living what appears to be a mundane life. The story opens with Meursault receiving the news that his mother, who he put into an old age home, has died. The Stranger is a novel by Albert Camus, often cited as a prime example of Camus' philosophy of the absurd and existentialism. The story's protagonist Meursault is an indifferent French Algerian, who hardly partakes of the traditional Mediterranean culture. Albert Camus, “The Stranger” Albert Camus The Stranger is a literary depiction of the obsessions of Meursault, the French-Algerian. It begins with Meursault narrating the story from the days of his mothers death to the day before his execution.
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