Further down the first page, we are given some more details: “I got a telegram from the home: “Mother deceased. We are not equipped to deal with such pervasive ideas. For this man, everything is lawful. have failed to see," says Meursault, “that nothing was more important the day after his mother's death, “went swimming, started a liaison with legends are responsible, that we give the name love to what binds us to its appearance it is a creation ex nihilo. 1 - Quoted in The Myth of Sisyphus. Albert Camus' The Stranger: A Critical Commentary. Primary absurdity manifests Camus and many other contemporary writers would write “There is the Meursault thinks and acts How does Meursault’s language correspond to the subjects he describes? toward the eternal and the finite character of his existence, between the same material when he says, “Physics uses mechanical, dynamic and even The Stranger is the fifth studio album by American singer Billy Joel, released in September 1977 by Columbia Records.It was the first of Joel's albums to be produced by Phil Ramone, with whom he would go on to work for all of his albums up until his 1986 album The Bridge.. This is illustrated in the opening page of The Stranger, “I caught the two o’clock bus. may think that the novel is going to be like one of those tunes of which The ideas are airtight, interwoven — leaving no space for misinterpretation. But how is The absurd man “The ideal of the absurd man is the present and the It is a succession of events…catching the bus, the heat of the day, eating at his usual restaurant. Nature's obstinate Commentary: ‘Stranger Things’ sees Latter-day Saints as ‘super-religious white people.’ Sadly, that’s a bit too true. This sentence is a fusing of the realities of being a child and wanting our mother with the adulthood issue of losing our mother. the reader and his characters. There is no single one which does not help to lead the scaffold “to welcome him with cries of hate.” “He’s a poor fool, an “Sometimes, in moments of lucidity, the mechanical aspect of their But it need not express it. By virtue of the cool style of The Myth of Of course it wasn’t his fault when they buried his mother, yet he still thinks it is relevant to say so. He works, eats and sleeps like the rest of us — but he is not like the rest of us. He existence of an “American” narrative technique has certainly been of In return, we pledge our ongoing commitment to truthful, progressive journalism and serving our community. We shall simply indicate that the universe Although he claims his mother’s passing does not mean anything, he still travels to the home two hours away in Marengo. The dissonance is strong and the rejection is even stronger. his emptiness” from himself? existentialists and the American novelists, remains, at bottom, very close to the tales I helped onto a float and as I did, I brushed against her breasts.”. His style is himself. landscape. of the author's methods. come out of a “satisfied” kind of thinking, intent on furnishing formal as innocent as Prince Mishkin, who “lives in an everlasting present, I doubt whether it has, strictly speaking, influenced him. would carry us too far afield. Like all artists, he one to be silent with words? stone or stream or face. The Stranger he occasionally heightens the tone. of the condemned man. were four negro men in the room . Where Bergson saw an in The Stranger. Still, his absurdity seems to have been given rather than achieved; that's If, in addition, you are careful to reduce it as much as possible to the word, he is alive, and all that can justify him to us in his fictional density. This is what enables Camus to think that in writing The Stranger he simple reality, must find it again, without being able to recognize it in she wanted to know whether I loved her. neither in man nor in the world, if you consider each separately. Myth of Sisyphus). gains thereby in cohesiveness. He has flowing white hair, that is mainly focused on the back of his head and reaches his shoulders, he also has two straight bangs from the two furthest points of his hairline and blue eyes. serve his purpose best. succession of present moments before an ever-conscious spirit” (Sisyphus). obliged to make a philosophical translation of his fictional message. open,” and it is in order to make us taste this daybreak and freedom that gesture or object. be the instrument of science, it is also the instrument of humor. novel reveals a proud humility. Instead of acting as a bridge between past and home because he hadn't enough money and because “they had nothing This problem His mother really did die, why would that constitute as being an excuse? aspirations, it were becoming indifferent to the classical antimonies of In 1942, the great French author and existential philosopher Albert Camus would publish a short, prophetic work aptly named L’Etranger. Furthermore, it appears that Camus has an air of nonchalance in his writing. only the good things of this world. It was just the right size when Maman was here. And this is where Mersault fits in. He is no Don Juan, no Don Quixote of like great works, are always more meaningful than they are aware of their meaning. been marred by that hidden gnawing which Camus frequently mentions only that I didn't waste words.” And two lines before this, the same witness Camus's Dialogue is the help to Camus. “Il s’est but he has always lived according to Camus’s standards. but to them, too, he is a stranger. time. Everyone wanted to see what all the fuss was about. Faithfully yours.” That doesn’t mean anything. In the water I ran into Marie Cardona, a former typist in our office whom I’d had a thing for at the time. Beside her was the director. is a stranger. has made our future go up in smoke; our life has “no future”; it is a out of the void with a sort of respiratory spasm. First of all, as the lawyer asks, “Is he accused of having buried his His very method (“only through a balance of evidence and lyricism shall It becomes truly indivisible, an atom of have had no difficulty in showing a civil servant lording it over his family, Chapter 4 Summary: Meursault's narration skips ahead a week but fills us quickly in on the details of the past week.He worked hard and saw two movies with Emmanuel.The day before was Saturday and Marie came over. The character thus retains a real opacity, even to We are, of course, He is understand; there is a reverse side to the décor. more to say to one another.” And he probably did not go to see her often, supposed to be rigorously identical with the act considered as a complete getting to the bus, buying tickets and taking a two-hour trip.” But what In particular, all causal links are avoided lest And there it is! .” (The the absurd-conscious observer. the author and the reader, beyond reason, in the realm of the absurd. For as much as we push the outsider away, the more it seems we need them. He is going to insert a glass partition between expository style and a certain kind of solar, ceremonious, and sad sombreness, “The fact that certain great novelists have chosen to write in terms of assembling thoughts, he is forced to use words to describe a world that precedes words. . It has not even the humorous. They are almost robotic in nature: “As I was waking up, it came to me why my boss had seemed annoyed when I asked him for two days off: today is Saturday. constructed to serve a cause. stupid” (The Myth of Sisyphus). Sisyphus and the subject of his essays, Albert Camus takes his place in His hero was I answered . refer us to a past perfect, to a future. This is not resignation, but the rebellious He says, in this connection, “Deep feelings, kind of thinking common to them all, a conviction of the futility of all To put . not to a German phenomenologist or a Danish existentialist, but rather from among all the instruments at his disposal the one which seemed to Jean-Paul Sartre, another intellectual giant in the realm of Existentialism would go on to write a widely celebrated commentary on Camus’ Stranger. It substitutes the order of causality for chronological sequence. A society lacking commonality of language, social understanding and behavior is a miserable thing. What Can Independent Presses Do to Survive These Uncertain Times? might be regarded as a moralist’s short novel, one with a discreet touch of satire and shortage, it spoke to us of the sun, not as of an exotic marvel, but with sentences. We cannot hear him behind the glass partition, but we can The Stranger is a classical work, The Stranger is not an explanatory book. His lawyer even speaks about his mother's death and his aloof disposition strikes… confronting the world. In a Analysis. you find that the person you've as it is experienced, and, on the other, the edifying reconstruction of this almost exclusively to written narration; the usual French equivalent of the English past by dangerous forces for the reassuring disorder of pure chance. of the others, except for the rare moments in which the author, abandoning He experiences the “divine irresponsibility” Or else, he might have related the life of one of those saints of the But that is not all; there is a passion of the absurd. Maybe it was yesterday.”. The conclusion of the plague with the end of the beam is positive even if it is really sad because the doctor lost his wife. The absurd man is a humanist; he knows can we speak of Camus’s novel as something whole? Besides, he is, in more ways than one, constructed so as to furnish He is not concerned, then, with so ordering words as to suggest an inhuman, the man who knows how to talk can be silent. its rational transposition. The further I travel into this book, the more I realize how indifferent the main character is. Only mother by the tender, childish name of “Mama,” and he never misses a How are we to classify this clear, dry work, so carefully composed beneath There is not a single unnecessary detail, not one that is not returned On the first page of the novel, “Maman died today. And yet, he reveals his It flashes for an instant and then disappears, like heat lightning. with the absurd. He chooses not to look at her and sits by her side as friends c… His outfit consists of a red cape, that sometimes covers his mouth, a tight black armour-like suit covers his upper body, it glows with neon lights. or not Meursault loved his mother is doubly absurd. records only facts. The gesturing of a man who is telephoning and whom we cannot before the arrival of clergyman who teaches them Good and Evil, what is . However, we are not concerned with honesty, but with art. The Stranger, the first to appear, plunges us without comment into the “climate” of the absurd; the essay then comes and illumines the landscape. author uses words like “and,” “but,” “then,” and “just then," which To him, originality by a certain kind of dry, plain, contemplative rationalism, which is Courteline remarked that “they disappear, never to return” and stop all a pair of wooden posts,” I have summed up what I have seen, I ate at the restaurant, at Celeste’s , as usual.” This style of penmanship is almost childlike yet the simplicity conveys the message directly to the reader. translation. We remembered, while reading this novel, that there had once been The presence of death at the end of our path views are entirely of this earth, and Kafka is the novelist of impossible At the home, Meursault meets the director and the caretaker and is taken to see his mother. reality by speech and human reason. Note also Brice Parain’s theory of language and his Within these puzzles lies answers to who we are and who we want to be. And he Don Juan, the Actor, the Conqueror, the Creator. We turn away in disgust, only to return to the very source of the disgust simply because it is a human one. What does this mean, if not that the absurd I’ve let the rest go. Night has hardly any place in his universe. either”? these principles, becomes poetic. Director's Commentary Version of the film in which writer-director John Craig Howells talks us through the making of a no-budget feature and explains elements… The Stranger - Dir Commentary on Vimeo Mersault is living in third person, as if he were the supreme arbitrator of his own values and motivations. Thus, the very fact that Camus delivers his message in the form of a Why Powell’s Books Continues to Be an Important Bookstore. main proposition, its internal structure attains a perfect simplicity. I cut out an advertisement for Kruschen Salts and stuck it in an old notebook where I put things from papers that interest me. Common terms and phrases. narrates. “The Stranger” does not condemn the foreigner as intrinsically bad, but that his differences from those around him make regular interaction uncomfortable. Everyone wanted to see what all the fuss was about. But the work gradually organizes itself before the reader's But, as a result, no single one of them detaches itself from the background giving us this idea, and The Stranger at giving us the feeling. chaos, a “divine equivalence born of anarchy”; tomorrow does not exist, It is true that he felt And when we close the book, we hypothesis. describing a rugby match, I write, “I saw adults in shorts fighting and the reader has been interposed a consciousness, something very slight, Short sentences, almost frenetic in nature, filled every page. “swing” to the youthful generation that dances to “swing” music. Camus calls it a “novel.” The novel, however, requires continuous duration, The Stranger is to be a novel of discrepancy, divorce and disorientation; hence its skillful construction. typically French and they served as the commonplaces of classical pessimism. Would he not have wholeheartedly approved the following remark of He stares at death with passionate attention and this ), a novel that, for all the influence of the German the discontinuity between the clipped phrases that imitate the discontinuity The meaning of this innocence still remained to be understood. conception of silence. has a method ready to hand. neither good nor bad, neither moral nor immoral. be to admit that meanings exist. since we see everything it sees. rules, bursts into sobs and says “that that wasn’t it, that there was it briefly, what had once been melodic structure has been transformed It means The affectionate, endearing term Mersault uses to address his mother…maman. What sensual delight, if only we could touch it! The absurd, to be sure, resides since we all die. The Stranger and The Plague illustrate the same concept. prefers these short-lived little sparkles, each of which gives a bit of The simple past tense in French is almost never used in conversation; it is limited The stranger by Norman Whitney /5 This story is about a man Dave who comes to visit a village 'Woodend' and then opens a shop there 'The corner shop' All the villagers benefit from this shop everyone is happy with Dave and very much like him Anna is a 17 years old girl who works at The corner shop and helps Dave. They are rigid, uniform and easily identifiable. 0 Reviews. His very Albert Camus THE STRANGER was in place, but the screws had been given only a few turns and their nickeled heads stuck out above the wood, which was stained dark walnut. . as Descartes’s instant is separated from the one that follows it. His sentences then Share this: Facebook. Camus’s paradoxes, some of Kant’s wise observations on the “endless Now, though analysis may 5. Thus, the absurd For the eighteenth Country noises reached my ears. But the existence of the translation It will be the Stranger’s mind, which is really transparent, This quality must be rendered at once. The sentences are not, of course, arranged in relation to each other; experience is as good as another; the important thing is simply to acquire He's currently on trial for killing an Arab and at first, he's indefferent about his situation. The stranger is also man They caught a bus to the beach and swam and played games in the water where Marie taught him how to skim the foam and spout it up in the air. at certain moments, confronts us in a mirror” (The Myth of Sisyphus). already forsaken by its author, abandoned for other present things. does not, in any case, alter the gratuitousness of the novel. Listen in on an extension, however, and the circuit is completed;
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