![]() ![]() That night, he happily arrives back in Algiers. During the vigil, he drinks coffee and smokes cigarettes next to the coffin, showing his indifference to his mother’s death. ![]() Meursault is asked if he wants to see his mother who is sealed in the coffin. “The curious feeling the son has for his mother constitutes all his sensibility.” An aspect that is often lost in translation is that he uses the child’s word “Maman”, literally “Mommy”, instead of the more adult “Mother”. ![]() Right from the start, we can see Meursault’s emotional indifference and detached personality. Faithfully yours.” That doesn’t mean anything. I got a telegram from the home: “Mother deceased. Meursault, an indifferent French Algerian, is the protagonist of The Stranger, to whom the novel’s title refers. Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.” The Stranger has had a profound impact on millions of readers. Though it is a work of fiction, it is often cited as an example of Camus’ philosophy of Absurdism. L’Étranger, The Stranger or The Outsider, is a 1942 novel by French author Albert Camus. ![]()
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