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Introduction

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Camus gave the world a new kind of hero when The Stranger and the accompanying essay collection The Myth of Sisyphus burst upon the literary […]

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Albert Camus

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Albert Camus lived in a period of remarkable turmoil in the world-two world wars were fought, and colonized countries began independence struggles-notably India and Algeria. […]

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Plot Summary

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A Part One The Stranger opens with the narrator, Meursault, receiving a telegram telling him his mother has died. Departing on the afternoon bus from […]

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Characters

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A Marie Cardona Formerly a typist in the same office as Meursault, Marie Cardona happens to be swimming where Meursault goes swimming the day after […]

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Construction

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A Narrative Psychological self-examinations are common in French first-person narratives, but Camus’s The Stranger gave the technique of psychological depth a new twist at the […]

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Historical Perspective

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A Algeria Resuming a policy of imperialist expansion after the Napoleonic era, France invaded Algeria in 1830. The French soon controlled the city of Algiers […]

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Themes

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A Absurdity Absurdity is a philosophical view at which one arrives when one is forced out of a very repetitive existence. As Camus says, in […]

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Questions

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Consider the element of time in the novel. Suggest some reasons why Camus chose not to establish the date or era. Keep in mind the […]

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Compare and Contrast

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1942: Algeria is a French colony under the government of Nazi occupation. Today: The political party which established Algeria as an independent nation has lost […]