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A review by irine_elle
The Stranger by Albert Camus
1.0
This is the most basic story I've ever read, but actually it's not, it's complex beyond the scope or understanding or something pretentious like that...idk.
I was under the impression that this was supposed to be a commentary on the irrationally and meaningless of existence. It only made me wonder why this books exists.
If the point of it is to be completely meaningless, it successfully wasted my time.🙄
I guess if you're looking at it in a very meta way it succeeded.
However it was incredibly frustrating and boring to get through and it was only 123 pages.
When searching online I see that every criticism is met with "It's supposed to be that way!!".
Hear me out... what if the characters are not meant to be flat to symbolise the ultimate insignificance of individuals, but are just accidentally flat. In the spirit of the curtains that just happen to be blue.
If you need to read the whole fucking Wikipedia page to "get it" then it might just be a bad book with great marketing.
I was under the impression that this was supposed to be a commentary on the irrationally and meaningless of existence. It only made me wonder why this books exists.
If the point of it is to be completely meaningless, it successfully wasted my time.🙄
I guess if you're looking at it in a very meta way it succeeded.
However it was incredibly frustrating and boring to get through and it was only 123 pages.
When searching online I see that every criticism is met with "It's supposed to be that way!!".
Hear me out... what if the characters are not meant to be flat to symbolise the ultimate insignificance of individuals, but are just accidentally flat. In the spirit of the curtains that just happen to be blue.
If you need to read the whole fucking Wikipedia page to "get it" then it might just be a bad book with great marketing.