About This Novel
The book is divided into two parts. The first part begins with the death of Meursault's mother and ends with him killing the Arabs on the beach. It is a story narrated in chronological order. In the second part, the prison cell replaces the sea, and social consciousness replaces Meursault's spontaneous consciousness. In an objectively recorded "zero style", the book describes in broad strokes the various absurd things that the protagonist Meursault has experienced in an absurd world, as well as his own absurd experience. Camus sympathetically praised Meursault for his proud attitude of contempt for religion and death. Although this kind of resistance is negative, it deeply reflects the uneasiness and despair about the world that spread in Western society after the outbreak of World War II, and therefore has certain practical significance.
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Official(1)Scraped 5d ago
What's wrong with this world? If you don't cry at the funeral, you're a murderer.
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Official(1)Scraped 5d ago
What's wrong with this world? If you don't cry at the funeral, you're a murderer.
