The Stranger
Meursault buries his mother in Algiers without crying, goes swimming the next day, and drifts into the affairs of a neighbor with a grudge. A hot afternoon on the beach puts him in a courtroom where his indifference counts for more than the facts. A man tried less for a killing than for not weeping at his mother's funeral; the absurd on trial, argued the same year in Camus's essay on Sisyphus.
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- influenced by ↑ Men Without Women
- ↓ The Misunderstanding
- ↓ A Happy Death
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