Tuesday, January 20, 2009

L'etranger

Tonight I finished The Stranger by French author and philosopher Albert Camus. It instantly became one of my favorite books. The story is short. The premise is simple. Ward's translation is beautiful and I think accurately conveys the tone of Mersault into English. Camus effectively put me in the skin of Mersault, and by the end of the book, I saw the world as he did: dispassionate and absurd.

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Deric Roach said...

I don't want to be labeled. And while I saw the world through Mersault's eyes (as dispassionate and absurd), I don't necessarily believe that is the only way to see the world.

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