Oct 6, 2008

The Stranger | The Stranger

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Author: Albert Camus
First Published: 1942
Type of Work: Novel
Type of Plot: Existentialism
Time of Work: Late 1930’s to early 1940’s
Setting: Algeria
Genres: Long fiction, Existential literature, Philosophical realism
Subjects: Colonialism, Murder or homicide, 1940’s, Alienation, 1930’s, Capital punishment, Trials, Death or dying, Funeral rites or ceremonies, Existentialism, Algeria or Algerians
Locales: Algiers, Algeria

Characters Discussed

Meursault (mur-SOHLT), a young clerk in a business office in Algiers, Algeria. Although not totally disengaged from humanity, Meursault, the narrator and main character, maintains only unemotional and uncommitted relationships with others, even his mother. When called to a home for the aged in Marengo, fifty miles away, for his mother’s funeral, he shows no desire to view her body for the last time and shocks the other residents of the home by his seeming indifference. Though physically intimate with his Arab girlfriend, Marie, he regards her desire for...

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The Stranger | The Stranger

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Characters Discussed

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