L'Étranger

Thom a publié une critique de L'Étranger par Albert Camus

L'Étranger - Albert Camus

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Je ne sais pas trop comment j’en suis arrivé à lire ce livre mais c’est peut-être le premier livre en dehors des champs de SFF que j’ai lu. L’Étranger est un court roman d’Albert Camus. Il est assez difficile de le résumer. On suit Meursault à partir de l’annonce de la mort de sa mère. Le personnage est particulièrement atypique. Il n’a pas d’empathie et ne semble pas vraiment comprendre la société. On suit donc des événements qui se succèdent et auxquels Meursault n’a jamais la bonne réaction.

Je pense avoir apprécié le côté absurde du personnage, la narration faite de petites phrases courtes et percutantes qui là encore représentent bien ce personnage qui ne s’étend pas. Mais je pense aussi être passé à côté de plein de choses.

Julia_98@bookwyrm.world a publié une critique de The Stranger par Albert Camus

A Sunburned Soul: Confronting Absurdity in Camus’ The Stranger

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Reading The Stranger by Albert Camus left me both unsettled and oddly calm — like staring into a bright, empty sky and realizing it has no answers. Originally published in 1942, this novel is often seen as the embodiment of Camus’ philosophy of the absurd, and with good reason.

The story follows Meursault, a French-Algerian clerk who reacts to life’s most significant events — his mother’s death, a romantic relationship, even a murder — with unsettling emotional detachment. His indifference is not cruelty, but a radical honesty: he simply refuses to pretend that life has inherent meaning.

When Meursault shoots an unnamed Arab man under the blazing Algerian sun, it feels less like a crime of passion than an existential rupture. What follows is not just a murder trial, but a trial of Meursault’s character, his lack of faith, his refusal to lie about grief or belief. Society, …

Reading The Stranger by Albert Camus left me both unsettled and oddly calm — like staring into a bright, empty sky and realizing it has no answers. Originally published in 1942, this novel is often seen as the embodiment of Camus’ philosophy of the absurd, and with good reason.

The story follows Meursault, a French-Algerian clerk who reacts to life’s most significant events — his mother’s death, a romantic relationship, even a murder — with unsettling emotional detachment. His indifference is not cruelty, but a radical honesty: he simply refuses to pretend that life has inherent meaning.

When Meursault shoots an unnamed Arab man under the blazing Algerian sun, it feels less like a crime of passion than an existential rupture. What follows is not just a murder trial, but a trial of Meursault’s character, his lack of faith, his refusal to lie about grief or belief. Society, it seems, is more disturbed by his honesty than his violence.

What struck me most was the clarity of Camus’ prose. The sentences are clean and sharp, mirroring Meursault’s view of the world: unembellished, immediate, free of illusion. It’s a language that leaves no room to hide — from death, from truth, or from ourselves.

For me, The Stranger is less about a man on trial than about what it means to live authentically in an indifferent universe. It’s not comforting, but it is liberating.

tuell.bookwyrm a publié une critique de Der Fremde par Albert Camus

klassiker

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gesellschaftlich so wertvoll, empathieförderung, harte kost zwischendurch

intothebeans a publié une critique de The Stranger par Albert Camus

My Intro to Philosophy

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I read this book my senior year of high school, and it is the book that got me into philosophy. Every time I revisit the book I comprehend its place in Camus's philosophy more and more.

coldwave@book.dansmonorage.blue a publié une critique de The Stranger par Albert Camus

don't care

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I read this for French practice. It did do its job of being simple in language and short, while being a whole serious "classic" book for adults.

I'm not the type of person for philosophical debates. I know the answers and/or don't care. You shoot someone for no reason -> you go to jail so that you don't do it again. I don't have time for what exactly what might be wrong with this guy or whether he loves his mother.

But maybe I missed the point because I don't even speak French?

I read this for French practice. It did do its job of being simple in language and short, while being a whole serious "classic" book for adults.

I'm not the type of person for philosophical debates. I know the answers and/or don't care. You shoot someone for no reason -> you go to jail so that you don't do it again. I don't have time for what exactly what might be wrong with this guy or whether he loves his mother.

But maybe I missed the point because I don't even speak French?

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