
Stranac
The Stranger is the novel with which Camus achieved his first great success, influenced by Nietzsche's philosophy, Sartre's philosophy of existentialism, and, most of all, his philosophy of the absurd.
The novel belongs to the period of late modernism (from the 1940s to the 1970s). The theme is a depiction of meaningless and absurd life and man's alienation and life as a meaningless existence ruled by an unpredictable series of coincidences.
The question to which Camus seeks an answer is how to justify existence in a world without meaning. That is, how to accept one's own helplessness in a life that is nothing more than a series of absurdities (the philosophy of the absurd). The novel consists of two parts of the novel. The first part refers to Meursault's life as a free man and his direct experience. The second part is not Meursault's life in prison where commentary and explanation are expected…
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