The Stranger - Albert Camus BOOK REVIEW #shorts #books

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[maryamkj]

I've read the version in Arabic and it was amazing the translator used such powerful words

[tcarroll]

Great book. Loved it. Read it last year.

[karinaromay]

Hello, the correct tile is THE outsider. All the scholars dedicated to the work written by Camus are unanimously in favor for this translation. Penguin Podcast made a special episode about the title and work 😊.

[mishmash]

More than anything else I think this novel shines light on the hypocrisy of society's relationship to truth . How people aren't ready to hear the truth and how society punishes those poor autists who by their very nature are unable to play the game of mutual social deception. This book is a goddamn masterpiece..

[littlewing]

Possibly the novel I revere more than any other. I read it when I was 18. Camus created a perfect work here

[grippersrealm]

read it, thought it was well written, but cant stand camus philosophically. still worth it.

[wendellgutierrez]

Brooo I read this book last year, it was very nice!

[digdugdigdug]

After reading, a hollow feeling, for weeks

[gxulien]

Don't let "philosophically absurd" scare you off. It's an easy read and well worth it. I'm not sure this synopsis captures the main themes of the novela.

[tomsentaylor]

A crucial but often missed point: Camus disagrees with Meursault. Meursault is a personification of extreme nihilism, where the ultimate conclusion to the meaninglessness of life is death. Camus, however, seeks to embrace the absurdity of life as a reason to keep living.

He discusses this in "The Myth of Sisyphus", where Camus "attempts to resolve the problem of s*icide" (his words in the Preface). I see Stranger, Myth, and The Rebel (an essay resolving "the problem of murder") as a continuum.

[केवलसंगीत]

I saw this book in the hands of Pi Patel in the movie Life of Pi

[cristoferantunez]

This just randomly popped up my shorts and you know what? Fuck it, you sold me on it😂
Gonna buy it on a whim now lmao

[middleDZ]

I didn’t get it my first time through, and somehow it was totally different on my second🙏

[TeatroGrotesco]

A character motivated by the sun and no mention of The Story of the Eye?

[clancymcadams]

your reviews as short form content rule. do this more!!

[VideoEnjoyer-mz]

I read this book years ago. I absolutely hated it. There isn't a single sympathetic character in the entire novel. Meursault is a soulless husk of a human being, which makes the slog through the novel that much harder, because it's told almost exclusively from his point of view. Even Raskolnikov was easier to identify with -- as self-pitying and narcissistic as he is. There isn't a single redeeming feature to save this work. Don't do it.

[hannacarter]

Sounds depressing. No thanks. Life is for finding Jesus Christ as your Savior so your soul can get to God.