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Considered a classic of 20th-century literature, The Stranger has received critical acclaim for Camus's philosophical outlook, absurdism, syntactic structure, and existentialism (despite Camus's rejection of the label), particularly within its final chapter. [3] Le Monde ranked The Stranger as number one on its 100 Books of the 20th Century. [4]
Meursault, the protagonist of Albert Camus' novel The Stranger, murders a character known only as "the Arab", saying, in his trial, that the murder was a meaningless gesture caused by sunstroke or God's absence. Camus left Meursault's victim nameless, but Kamel Daoud gives him a name: Musa.
Albert Camus (/ k æ ˈ m uː / [2] ka-MOO; ... is a novel that was written between 1936 and 1938. It features a character named Patrice Mersault, comparable to The ...
The Stranger (Italian: Lo straniero) is a 1967 film by Italian film director Luchino Visconti, based on Albert Camus's 1942 novel The Stranger, with Marcello Mastroianni. [ 1 ] Plot
Songwriter Robert Smith said the song "was a short poetic attempt at condensing my impression of the key moments in the 1942 novel L'Étranger (The Stranger) by Albert Camus". [5] The lyrics describe a shooting on a beach, in which the titular Arab is killed by the song's narrator; in Camus' story the protagonist, Meursault, shoots an Arab on a ...
The Stranger (Camus novel), a 1942 novella by Albert Camus; The Stranger (Coben novel), a 2015 novel by Harlan Coben; The Stranger (Applegate novel), a 1997 book in the Animorphs series; The Stranger (Van Allsburg book), a 1986 book by Chris Van Allsburg; The Stranger (short story collection), a 1987 book by Gordon R. Dickson
When "Stranger Things" premiered in 2016, it hit the nostalgia spot, combining the universality of high school stories with '80s fever. The show's fourth season premiered in May 2022, and a lot ...
A Happy Death was Camus' first novel and was clearly the precursor to his most famous work, The Stranger, published in 1942. The main character in A Happy Death is named "Patrice Mersault", similar to The Stranger's "Meursault"; both are French Algerian clerks who kill another man.