The Stranger -Albert Camus
I have always wanted to read one of the works of Albert Camus but did not have the courage because I have read some of his essays and aren’t they deep!!. "I summarized The Stranger a long time ago, with a remark I admit was highly paradoxical: "In our society any man who does not weep at his mother's funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death." I only meant that the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game." - Albert Camus The stranger is a debut novel with themes best cited as examples of Camus’s philosophy: absurdism, coupled with that of existentialism, even though Camus rejected the latter label. The book is more like a family car trip by thinking that only the mood is set the same as in the book by reading the first few lines. The car trip tends to be interesting, about learning lessons, and a lot more. One may wonder why did I compare a book to a car trip, it’s because while on a trip and peeking ...
