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Albert Camus, Matthew Ward: The Stranger (Paperback, 1989, McGraw-Hill) 4 stars

L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans …

Review of 'The Stranger' on 'LibraryThing'

4 stars

This book is straight-forward. A trip into the mind of a man, who acts and thinks like a stoic; his journey through life is simple, basically because he does what he wants and doesn't care for much. He's easily bored and seemingly steers away from what he's not attracted to. He doesn't even do a lot of "mandatory" stuff when he doesn't want to.

Even though I like the descriptions in the book as well as the plot, it's what's not there which interests me most; explanations to the man's behaviour are scarce, and this book is to me akin to Antonioni's "L'Avventura", where a clear plot is far from obvious, if even there.

All in all: short, concise and well-written. Highly interesting, mainly because it's so post-modern.