The Stranger
Albert Camus • 1942
Devastation Rating
philosophical literary fiction injustice
Our Take
Meursault kills a man on a beach because the sun was in his eyes, and the world cannot forgive him for not pretending to be more upset about it. Camus makes indifference the most radical position available, then shows what it costs. Philosophy as crime scene. The absurd, perfectly embodied.
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