Albert Camus - The Stranger

Pros: Well written, thought provoking novel.
Cons: I can't read it in the original French.

Albert Camus’ timeless literary classic, The Stranger, is the tale of an average lower middle-class French Algerian Colonist named Mersault who finds himself involved in a pointless murder. The story is told through Meursault’s eyes. ...

Pros: lucidity, brevity
Cons: the deck is stacked for the conclusion of "absurdity"

Albert Camus died (in an automobile accident) a year and a half before fellow Nobel Prize-winner Ernest Hemingway. A few years later (the mid-1960s) when I was reading their fiction, Hemingway seemed much "longer ago" than Camus did. In part this is ...

Pros: good symbolism, a quick read, good characterization
Cons: not particularly climactic

To be honest, this was one of the books we were forced to read for my English class. But, it was actually a book I didn't mind reading at all. Basically, a man, Meursault, lives his life out of touch with any sort of emotion other than what his physical ...

Pros: Gives the reader a view of Camus's Philosophy of Human Nature
Cons: Leaves the reader with unanswered questions at times

Though many people have argued about the system which all human beings are connected, Albert Camus's The Stranger depicts the rules of society in a novel that will not take more than a day or two to read. The novel itself is very straightforward; ...