Novel · 1942
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Aya Saleh · Ink & Ivy
Novel · 1942 · French · Modern
The Stranger
Meursault does not cry at his mother's funeral, and is convicted for it.
AbsurdismExistentialismIndifferenceDeathJudgementSun
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The trial punishes a temperament, not a murder. Camus's flat passé composé sentences make the reader complicit in the same emptiness the court finds monstrous.
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