The Stranger

based on the novel by Albert Camus

Book 22193 in RoRoRo

The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep. Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will once again blind the calm, reserved Meursault as he …

131 pages

English language

Published June 7, 2016 by Pegasus Books.

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ISBN:
978-1-68177-135-9
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OCLC Number:
923794353

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Subjects
  • Existential ethics
  • Social life and customs
  • Murder
  • Misanthropy
  • Alienation (Social psychology)
  • Murderers
  • Comic books, strips

Places

  • Algeria

Reviews

Intriguing and awkward.

The book is initially quite weird to start. Most of the sentences are short and clipped, and it largely feels like reading an ongoing journal of a select few days in a person's life. In fact, I quite like that structure; it's not something that I've really encountered before.

I also find it interesting for the questions that it poses, particularly with regards to the subject of a life and their experiences. Beyond that, I can't really write a review for it; there's a lot that I still want to digest and revisit at a later date.