Albert Camus's The Stranger review
Albert Camus was born in 1913 in Mondovi. He was a French Algerian philosopher, author and journalist. He studied philosophy at the University of Algiers. He is a noble laureate and won the noble prize in literature in 1957 at the age of 44. His works usually contains themes of absurdism and existentialism and other ideas that are usually considered thought provoking. The Stranger is Camus’s first novel. It is about a man being a stranger amid a group of people who constitutes a society with a designed set of ethics, rules and norms that everyone should abide to. However, Camus’s perception is inclined towards the absurdism being the unique perspective that opposes the society’s made norms. The novel has themes related to life being with no meaning and that our own existence is irrational through the protagonist and his reactions to his destiny. Camus’s main purpose was to deliver a story that would reinforce hi...