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Outsider (Everyman's Library Classics)
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 813
EAN: 9781857151398
ISBN: 1857151399
Label: Everyman's Library Ltd
Manufacturer: Everyman's Library Ltd
Number Of Pages: 127
Publication Date: 1998-05
Publisher: Everyman's Library Ltd
Studio: Everyman's Library Ltd
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Rating:  - Camus: great thinker, lesser novelist
The Outsider, one of Camus' earlier works, reads distinctly as a vehicle for Camus' philosophy. The novel is a short, icy delienation of the notion that life is absurd. People serch for meaning, for shape, for explanations behind actions. What if a person existed who found no meaning in the course of his life? Meursalut is a man who lives an unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers. His mother dies - he does not grieve, circumstances lead him to shoot an Arab man at point blank range on a boiling hot ... Read More
Rating:  - Short But Sweet.
Camuses book 'The Outsider' follows in a very vivid and simple style the life of Meursault, whilst wearing the spectacles of a society 64 years previous the book has as much significance today as it did then. Just over 100 pages of carefully crafting western society and the morals and laws that underpin everybodies lives...the legal constraints the tabloid lines taken through the eyes of one man...whether protagonist or hero young Meursault is still an 'open verdict' today. Recommended reading.
Rating: - More than what it seems to be
Originally L'Etranger, the english version I read was (obviously) a translation from the original French language in which the book was conceived.
The story is in two parts. The first is of Meursault, the main character- establishing and developing his character. It traces his days up until the point where he commits a murder for no apparent reason. The second part describes his incarceration, reflections on what has transpired, and his trial.
It is written plainly enough to be taken as ... Read More
Rating:  - A book of thought and existentialism
Albert Camus' "Outsider" is a short, to the point, two part novel. The first introduces us to the characters and leads up to the killing of an Arab on the beach by the principal characters. The second follows his ordeal afterwards, his thoughts and his trial. He is persecuted as a cold killer due to his lack of visible emotion or remorse. He is concerned only for himself.
As mentioned in a previous review, this is a book of thought and questioning. Camus questions the pillars of ... Read More
Rating: - L'Etranger de Albert Camus
Il est un homme qui ne joue pas le jeu. Il est un peu différent et pour cette raison, il n'est pas accepté dans la société. Il est Meursault. Meursault est un homme 'taciturne et renferme' et parce qu'il ne montre pas ses emotions, il est condamne a mort. Le livre commence avec l'enterrement de sa mere ou il ne pleure pas. Il est indifferent a la mort de sa mere, et il continue sa vie, comme si rien s'est passé. Un jour quand il va a la plage avec ses amies, il tue un Arabe. Il pretend que c'est ... Read More
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