The Stranger
Albert Camus
The Stranger, originally published in French as L’Etranger in 1942, is a short brutally minimalist book written by Algerian born French Existentialist philosopher Albert Camus. Camus once stated in an interview that the core message of the story is that if you don’t show sufficient emotion at your mother’s death you may be executed. It is an intentionally absurd statement about an absurdist work in which the author created a character devoid of any purpose or conscious will to build a life yet whose sincerity, at least for the author, is admirable.
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