The Guest | The Symbolic Decor of ‘The Guest’
In the following excerpt, which originally appeared in the French Review in February 1973, Fortier assesses the symbolic value of Camus’s descriptions of nature in ‘‘The Guest.’’
Camus situates this short story in the North African desert at a time when revolutionary violence is about to break out. There are three characters: the schoolmaster Daru, a policeman, and an Arab. Because of the extraordinary circumstances, the policeman hands the Arab prisoner over to Daru, telling him that he is to take the...
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