The Stranger “was a book he found in himself, rather than writing a book about himself.” It was fiction that was in him, Kaplan writes, waiting to be discovered.

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The poverty and illness Camus experienced as a youth greatly influenced his writing. After dropping out of the university, Camus eventually entered the world of political journalism. While working for an anti-colonialist newspaper, he wrote extensively about poverty in Algeria.

Albert Camus was a French novelist, essayist, and playwright. He is best known for his novels The Stranger (1942), The Plague (1947), and The Fall (1956).

In the Mediterranean, the coal room worker was more often than not an Algerian, and so the term evolved from being a derogatory term for an Algerian, to being used to refer to a person of French descent born in Algeria.

Camus’s message in The Stranger is that life is absurd. He communicates this message through the protagonist, Meursault, who lives his life according to the belief that his world operates without order, reason, or meaning.

Now, the main lessons from The Stranger, by Albert Camus, are the notions of Existentialism and the Absurd.

Albert Camus used his debut novel, The Stranger (1942), as a platform to explore absurdity, a concept central to his writings and at the core of his treatment of questions about the meaning of life. In his work, Camus addressed topics ranging from alienation to the inadequacy of traditional values.

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At the end of The Stranger, Meursault is able to die happy because he (like Ivan Ilyich) is able to come to terms with himself as a constituent part of existence, and so live authentically.

At the end of The Stranger, Meursault realizes that death is inevitable and the universe is indifferent to humanity.

According to Camus, not only is Meursault innocent, he is the only authentic person in his world. His authenticity takes the form of immediate contact with existence, the only real certainty for Camus, in contrast with the false moral, religious and customary beliefs of ordinary people.

Meursault also dislikes the fact that the guillotine forces the condemned to hope that the execution works on the first try. If the first attempt fails, the execution will be painful. Hence, the prisoner is forced into “moral collaboration” with the execution process, by hoping for its success.

One french book reviewer (in this review ) argues that it’s because Meursault wants to feel loved (“less lonely” he says) and in the novel it is shown that love and hatred are closely relate, exemplified with Salamano and his dog Or the love of Man for the World, and its paradoxical hatred for it as the latter is …

As opposed to earlier in the novel, when Meursault was passively content at best, here Meursault finds that he is actively happy once he opens himself to the reality of human existence. Meursault finds that he is also happy with his position in society. He does not mind being a loathed criminal.

Meursault may be completely indifferent to his imminent death, but somewhat paradoxically, he does appear to be concerned with maintaining his outsider status. That would help to explain why he expresses the wish that a large mob of unruly spectators turn up to his execution and greet him with cries of hate.

Meursault is found guilty and sentenced to death by guillotine. When asked whether he has anything to add, Meursault says no and is promptly taken away. Back in prison, Meursault refuses three times to see the chaplain.

It was then found that Camus had based Meursault on his close friend Galindo, and a search was therefore made for evidence of Galindo’s character; this revealed him to be an intelligent but odd person, who exhibited the characteristic impairment of social and personal behavior of Asperger’s syndrome.

He tells Meursault that a religious funeral has been planned for his mother, but Meursault knows that his mother never cared about religion. After the brief conversation, the director takes Meursault to the small mortuary where his mother’s coffin has been placed.

During his trial, the prosecutor’s hate for Meursault caused him to feel like crying. Throughout The Stranger Meursault desired acceptance so greatly, but after his crime, all the public felt for him was unbridled hatred.

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Although a relatively minor character in Camus’s novel L’étranger, Marie Cardona, the protagonist Meursault’s lover, was the author’s favorite creation. She represents love of life and unabashed sexuality in the novel to a greater degree than any other character.

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