This is a good read, in my opinion not anywhere near the mark as The Plague, but still worthy of reading.Īt times, this book can seem a little trying, and in some places even I struggled with Meursault. Worth the attempt - but unfortunately not my best Camus readĬommenté au Royaume-Uni 🇬🇧 le 21 août 2021 The Girl With the Plants and Books! 3,0 sur 5 étoiles "This great release of anger had purged me of evil, emptied me of hope and standing before this symbolic night bursting with stars, I opened myself for the first time to the tender indifference of the world"Īll I really want to know is, was he killed? or did he get a successful retrial. He who had always maintained an indifference to the world finally releases his anger and I quote This translation has a sentence that holds the critical point in the book and encapsulates Meursault whole being. When he finds himself in a situation that results in him killing a man and even ending on the chopping block, he felt no regret. When his mother died in a nursing home he could not express the emotions expected of him and that seems to be a nail in his coffin in the future. He did not conform to societal standards and emotional displays. This book follows Meursault who is a foreigner in Algeria but more importantly he has held stranger to himself and the society. It really shows his headspace and how he thinks about the world and the people within it.
I have made some progress and so far all the books have been so amazing and eye-opening. Suffice to say, after many decades of not reading Camus, I was not disappointed at all when I returned to this book.Ī while back I decided to read books that Kim Nam Joon from BTS has been seen either reading or recommending. Is Meursault a criminal? Is Meursault the victim of this novel? Or is Meursault simply wanting to live his life in his own way without being disturbed? For those who have not read this novel I will give no response to these questions, and given how short the novel is, I won't give any kind of precis or critique. This time I did understand the text, this time I was totally gripped by the intensity of the "non-action", and fully understood the main character.Ĭamus has made an excellent job of illustrating how societies, in general, have preconceptions and anyone who does not conform to those preconceptions are clearly an alien species and are to be treated as such. No longer having any of the books I bought in my youth, I was eager to buy this and read it through again.
Looking back, I likely had no idea what it was all about, no real idea of existentialism, but something in the text appealed to me and has stayed with me during my life. I first read Camus when I was 16/17 - many long decades ago.
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