![]() ![]() Meursault is a strikingly average person without any clear ambitions or hobbies. He’s a young man living in Algiers and working as a shipping clerk. The Stranger, Albert Camus’ most widely read novel, opens with the main character Meursault. Spoiler alert important details of the novel are revealed below. ![]() ![]() One important, pointless act changes and seals Meursault’s fate, it also reveals to him the truth of his own philosophical beliefs about the purpose of life. Those beliefs, and his own understanding of them and willingness to stick to them even in the face of death, define the climax and falling action of Camus’ novel. Through these scenes, as well as those which follow as Meursault returns home, spends time with a girl and interacts with his neighbors tell the readers something about his character and beliefs. Meursault travels to Marengo to attend to his mother’s affairs. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.” This colloquial phrase strikes at the heart of Meursault’s character and defines much of what is to come. Camus opens The Stranger with the widely quoted line, “Mother died today. The Stranger tells the story of Meursault, a detached, emotionless young man living in Algiers. The novel is regarded as one of the finest examples of absurdist fiction ever written. ![]()
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