Camus

Ann Lopatinskaya , translators 4th year
The Stranger (1942)
Albert Camus, philosopher, writer and the Nobel Prize winner for literature, is the author of a number of challenging and thought-provoking essays and novels. As a representative of French existentialism he regarded this trend not as a system of notions and concepts but rather as the expression of a certain mood, the way a man lives and chooses his behavior in the world of seeming permissiveness. The absurdity of existence, the power of death, the feeling of solitude and alienation from disgusting outer world (“everything is alien to me”) –these are the ideas that Camus characters are guided by.
From the very beginning the apparent indifference and inertia Mersault embodies strikes as inhuman and even immoral: shrugging off his mother’s death, agreeing to marry a woman he does not love, getting invo...