/lit/ - Literature

it was hot af outside

WHY IS IT SO SUNNY DUDE OH MY GOD

>>10963718
It's a commentary on the Algerian war.
He represents the detachment of the Pieds-Noirs w.r.t. the opression suffered by the arabic algerians.

>>10963718
He had some of that good ol' 'tism.

>>10963718
because life is absurd lmao

>>10963718
He wanted to check if he can feel anything.
At the end of the book we find out that he does.

>>10963729
If I ever murder somebody, I'm going to blame it on the sun.

>>10963718
Does it even matter why he did it?

>>10963718
Because he decided to.

>>10964088
>algerian war 1954-1962
>the stranger (1942)

>>10963718
Because nobody cared who he was before he killed the man.

>>10966601
was getting caught part of his plan?

>>10963718
The sun was in his eyes

>>10966339
wow... the Algerian war was a commentary on the stranger

>>10966643
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>>10963729
will these threads ever get old?

>>10966667
no

>>10966643
damn.

>>10966643
kek

>>10963718
Sun's out guns out, baby

I remember when i was in kindergarten and we were having free time in class. I was sitting beside and tripode abacus with a board on top of it. I was playing with the little colored balls that you move along a nylon string. Suddenly i had the idea to cut the nylon string with the scissors i was holding in my hands. I knew that what i was doing was not only wrong but absurd, because it will end with the destruction of something usefull in order to achieve nothing, but i did it anyway because i wanted to feel the string being cut.

he hated those slimey arabs

>>10963718
He was upset his mom died. Somehow the narrative of him being some emotionless person took hold but he was mostly just suffering from depersonalization and took it out on the arab and the priest. During his trial there was a scene was it talked about the events that happened before the novel where he rushed in and saved someone from a fire.

>>10967233
>rushed to save someone from a fire
Isn't that what they say about Rashkolnikov in C&P?

>>10967233
>rushed in and saved someone from a fire
You're thinking of crime and pumishment?

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>>10967388
Not him but I'm pretty sure it happens in The Stranger too. During the trial his lawyer brings it up to show some of the good deeds he's done in the past.

>>10967381
Why did Rashkolnikov get off so easy? 8 years for murdering 2 people while Mersault got death for shooting one measly *r*b who was waving a knife at him

>>10966617
of course

He was a The Cure fan like most murderers and wanted to replicate that "Killing an Arab" song. Also a commentary on the Argerian War.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym6kVqYld08

>>10967175
this is honestly of the best short stories I've ever read

>>10963718
>the people I'm here with suck
>the sun is so bright
>I just want to go home

>>10963718
To be heard on YouTube.
https://youtu.be/wwo8yU0zJFo

>>10963718
around arabs never relax

>not a single person on /lit/ pointing out the most obvious answer that was given to you straight from the book

Some days I don't even know why I come here

Is this thread like the KPOP threads on mu? Like a miniature containment thread from really autistic puns and a terrible book that perpetually stays up?

>>10967499
Same goes with every subject

>>10967499
>terrible book
How is it a terrible book? Explain without using any memes or buzzwords.

>>10967499
SUNS OUT GUNS OUT

>>10967546
everything is a meme, you dip

>>10967498
Honestly can anyone think of a good reason to not put down a sandnigger thats disrespecting you

>>10967427
It's Russia. They have more than enough people, nobody cares about one or two dead old women.
The real problem is that there are not enough people working in Siberia. They rather put someone in a labour camp than shooting him

>>10967627
You do know Camus was Algerian right?

>>10967740
で?

Remove kebap

>>10963718
Le heat of le moment

>>10963718
FUCK I just read this and was gonna start a thread, I finished Happy Death by Camus as well and enjoyed the third person narrative. Not to suck his dick but he's a guy who I would like to emulate - successful by 30.

You're not supposed to know. Just accept that he did it and there's no definitive answer. Read Sisyphus.

he wanted change in the inside by changing the outside

>>10967446
Srly?

>>10966339
holy .... so this is the power of barthes?

>>10967499
>terrible book
its objectively one of the greatest novels of all time

I think Mersaults mothers death effected him dramatically more than the novel would suggest.