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The Stranger |
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Albert Camus |
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This is the chilling and enrapturing story of a man who buries his mother, meets a girl, and kills a man, all in the space of a few weeks. He is an existentialist, and does not see the reason for talking when not necessary or weeping or believing in God. To him, it is all quite strange, and time passes in jail much as it would if he were outside. However at the end, he does feel the desire to escape from his sentence and be free. Despite the oddity of a man who does not feel sorrow for his mother or love for his lover, it is a captivating book, one that will keep the reader reading. It is short, and interesting, though not all will enjoy the strange manner in which the narrator lives. "What did other people's deaths or a mother's love matter to me; what did his God or the lives people choose or the fate they think they elect matter to me when we're all elected by the same fate, me and billions of privileged people like him who also called themselves my brothers? "
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