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A review by myopicmars
The Stranger by Albert Camus
challenging
reflective
tense
3.0
underwhelming but not bad necessarily.
most compelling aspect about this book and the main character was when he was outcasted as evil/immoral by the prosecution and people from the Home for not reacting in a socially acceptable way after his mother’s death. everything else is meh
meursault’s logic being: “sure i’ll write a letter for the rando neighbor to coerce a woman into coming to get her ass beat by him (then defend him to the police and then later shoot her brother 5 times for no particular reason) bc life is indifferent to everything, so am i, and we all die in the end”
the blurb saying he was “victimized by life itself” is hilarious bc that couldn’t be farthest from the truth imo
most compelling aspect about this book and the main character was when he was outcasted as evil/immoral by the prosecution and people from the Home for not reacting in a socially acceptable way after his mother’s death. everything else is meh
meursault’s logic being: “sure i’ll write a letter for the rando neighbor to coerce a woman into coming to get her ass beat by him (then defend him to the police and then later shoot her brother 5 times for no particular reason) bc life is indifferent to everything, so am i, and we all die in the end”
the blurb saying he was “victimized by life itself” is hilarious bc that couldn’t be farthest from the truth imo