A review by gracecrandall
The Adulterous Woman by Albert Camus

5.0

As usual, Camus is beautifully eloquent in communicating a sense of utter existential despair. I’m not sure what I think about that yet. There’s a kind of loveliness in the way he paints a world where everything is just slightly wrong, and unbearable because of it—how he can make you feel, down to your very soul, this painful dissatisfaction with the world; this straining, fruitless reaching for some unknown relief. On that count, I loved this story.

But, it’s also a story that is largely about someone doing very little and being sad about it, which is actually pretty frustrating, and on THAT count, I disliked this story intensely.