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sandy_keeks 's review for:
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
dark
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Part 2 was the only slightly enjoyable part of this book. My hackles were already raised from this being set in Algeria during the French occupation, so the mundane drivel of Meurcault was not doing this any favors.... At the heart of this it's still a colonizer novel centered around the death of a man who is reduced to the title of Arab.
Meursault was portrayed as indifferent, lacking care for anything and anyone around him. It was not that he did not care about anything, he just did not see a difference between caring and not caring. He took this philosophy into every aspect of his life. To get married or not, to live or not, to kill or not, etc. In the grand scheme of it all, it did not matter because nothing matters, and the tension caused by denying this or trying to find meaning in the meaningless is what begets the absurd.
We watched the idea of absurdism play out at his trial. The trial onward was hands down my favorite parts, and if the rest of the book had that same level of energy this could have been rated much higher. The judge, jury, and prosecutor were trying to find meaning in the meaningless actions of Meursault which was absurd.
We watched the idea of absurdism play out at his trial. The trial onward was hands down my favorite parts, and if the rest of the book had that same level of energy this could have been rated much higher. The judge, jury, and prosecutor were trying to find meaning in the meaningless actions of Meursault which was absurd.
I learned about absurdism, but I'm hoping to find better voices and narratives to portray that.