The Outsider
My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.'In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of.. Lire la suite
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My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.'
In The Outsider
(1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation
of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his
anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his
emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he
commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers,
his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the
law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.
Albert Camus'
portrayal of a man confronting the absurd, and revolting against the
injustice of society, depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when
faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world.
Sandra
Smith's translation, based on close listening to a recording of Camus
reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954, sensitively renders the
subtleties and dream-like atmosphere of L'Étranger.
