THE STRANGER was one of my first forays into absurdist literature, and I remember vividly how much I was jarred by the legal verdict (which, as you note, was based on the fact that the protagonist did not cry at his mother's funeral). Thank you for sharing your insights into this important work.
Thank you for this. I have this book and started it but never finished. I need to go back to it now.
I want to encourage you to finish. If you decide to finish please let me know your thoughts and reactions. It is depressing
THE STRANGER was one of my first forays into absurdist literature, and I remember vividly how much I was jarred by the legal verdict (which, as you note, was based on the fact that the protagonist did not cry at his mother's funeral). Thank you for sharing your insights into this important work.
I read this and other books by Camus in the late 60’s.
I always thought the Cure song, Killing an Arab was very directly related to it.