The Plague
A city sealed off, and the ordinary people who keep working.
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The Stranger
A man is condemned less for the killing than for not weeping.
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Meursault's emotional detachment and involvement in a killing bring him into conflict with the expectations of society. Camus examines judgment, alienation, and the search for meaning.
A By Albert Camus
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Meursault does not cry at his mother’s funeral. Later, on a beach outside Algiers, he shoots a man. At his trial the prosecution spends much of its time on the funeral, and the jury convicts a character rather than an act.
Camus’s first novel is short and flat in tone by design, and its opening sentence is among the most recognisable in twentieth-century fiction.
- How the deliberately flat narration makes Meursault legible as honest rather than cold.
- Why the trial concentrates on the funeral, and what that says about how societies judge.
- What Camus means by the absurd, and how the novel dramatises it rather than arguing it.
- How the physical world, heat, light, the beach, drives the decisive scene.
- Why Meursault refuses the chaplain, and what he accepts in the final pages.
- How this novel sits alongside The Myth of Sisyphus as its fictional counterpart.
Book details
- Author
- Albert Camus
- Publisher
- Lexicon Publishing
- Language
- English
- Format
- Paperback
Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist known for his contributions to existentialism and absurdism. His notable works include 'The Stranger', 'The Plague', and 'The Myth of Sisyphus'. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.
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- Fiction
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