L'étranger

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Albert Camus: L'étranger (French language, 2005, Folioplus Classiques)

Langue : French

Publié 17 mars 2005 par Folioplus Classiques.

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978-2-07-030602-2
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The Stranger (French: L'Étranger [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella by French author Albert Camus. Its theme and outlook are often cited as examples of Camus' philosophy, absurdism, coupled with existentialism; though Camus personally rejected the latter label.The title character is Meursault, an indifferent French settler in Algeria described as "a citizen of France domiciled in North Africa, a man of the Mediterranean, an homme du midi yet one who hardly partakes of the traditional Mediterranean culture." Weeks after his mother's funeral, he kills an Arab man in French Algiers, who was involved in a conflict with one of Meursault's neighbors. Meursault is tried and sentenced to death. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative view before and after the murder, respectively. In January 1955, Camus wrote this:

I summarized The Stranger a long time ago, with a remark I …

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A Sunburned Soul: Confronting Absurdity in Camus’ The Stranger

Reading The Stranger by Albert Camus left me both unsettled and oddly calm — like staring into a bright, empty sky and realizing it has no answers. Originally published in 1942, this novel is often seen as the embodiment of Camus’ philosophy of the absurd, and with good reason.

The story follows Meursault, a French-Algerian clerk who reacts to life’s most significant events — his mother’s death, a romantic relationship, even a murder — with unsettling emotional detachment. His indifference is not cruelty, but a radical honesty: he simply refuses to pretend that life has inherent meaning.

When Meursault shoots an unnamed Arab man under the blazing Algerian sun, it feels less like a crime of passion than an existential rupture. What follows is not just a murder trial, but a trial of Meursault’s character, his lack of faith, his refusal to lie about grief or belief. Society, it seems, …

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Lo straniero

Lo straniero è uno di quei romanzi che vanno letti perché non si possono proprio raccontare: è uno di quelli che basano la loro forza sulle sensazioni e sulle riflessioni che quelle sensazioni portano con sé. È anche molto probabile che a persone diverse dica cose diverse, perché alla fine la storia di Meursault è così insignificante da non poter essere ignorata e liquidata come una storia senza importanza.

Meursault all’inizio del romanzo ci suscita subito antipatia, per nessuna ragione se non per il fatto che è uno straniero. E non uno straniero qualunque: potremmo definirlo lo straniero definitivo, così estraneo da esserlo anche nei confronti della vita stessa. Non possiamo incasellarlo nello stereotipo del bravo straniero perché non si distingue per particolari meriti, né nello stereotipo del cattivo straniero perché non briga per fregare lз autoctonз. Sta nella sua vita senza alcun entusiasmo, giusto perché ci è ritrovato …

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I read this for French practice. It did do its job of being simple in language and short, while being a whole serious "classic" book for adults.

I'm not the type of person for philosophical debates. I know the answers and/or don't care. You shoot someone for no reason -> you go to jail so that you don't do it again. I don't have time for what exactly what might be wrong with this guy or whether he loves his mother.

But maybe I missed the point because I don't even speak French?