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About This Novel
"The Stranger" is Camus' famous work, a masterpiece of existential literature, and a representative work of absurd novels. The novel tells the story of an ordinary young clerk who lives numbly in aimless inertia all day long. One day he went to the beach for vacation, got involved in a conflict, and committed a murder. Because "he did not shed a tear at his mother's funeral", he was sentenced to death by the court in the name of "the French people". The novel elaborates on an important proposition of existentialism: the absurdity and strangeness of human society in modern life lead to individual despair and nihilism. By calmly describing the entire process of a little person being "demonized" by the judicial authorities, it profoundly satirizes the hypocrisy and foolhardy nature of modern law.
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Official(1)Scraped 5d ago
Being too sober will lead to world-weariness
Being alive is a subjective feeling, and the world we see is also our own subjective feeling. How should the world run? How should we respond to things? Is it right to be the same as others, or is it deviant to have different ideas?
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Official(1)Scraped 5d ago
Being too sober will lead to world-weariness
Being alive is a subjective feeling, and the world we see is also our own subjective feeling. How should the world run? How should we respond to things? Is it right to be the same as others, or is it deviant to have different ideas?
