Part 1 of 5 · freeIntroduction
The Stranger, published in 1942, was the first novel by Albert Camus. In 123 pages of blank writing, a flat style with no ornament, it follows Meursault, an office clerk in Algiers whose indifference to social convention destroys him.
The book turns the absurd in Camus into fiction. The absurd is born from the clash between our hunger for meaning and the silence of the world. Meursault never fakes what he feels, and that refusal is exactly what condemns him.
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- 2Camus and the cycle of the absurd
- 3Meursault: the man without a mask
- 4The trial of a soul
- 5A shock that has not faded
Open-book quiz10 questions whose answers are in the text.
Glossary12 terms explained in a tap.
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