/lit/ - Literature

[Anonymous No.22415260]

What does it mean?

[Anonymous No.22415284]

>>22415260
My first gf said that i made her think of the protagonist of the book when she broke up with me

[Jon Kolner No.22415288]

It means actions have consequences

[Jon Kolner No.22415300]

>>22415288
I am the real Jon Kolner and there is no way I could read a heavy book like the stranger. It is almost fifty pages even. It’s that long. It gives my head the feeling my ass gets at the club

[Anonymous No.22415312]

>>22415284
I promised my mom I would give her the book when I'm done, but now I'm scared that this will happen. Maybe I'll pretend to forget

[Anonymous No.22415319]

>>22415312
but you'll have your dad all to yourself after

[Anonymous No.22415458]

>>22415260
low-key it's just about french anti-islam shit

[Anonymous No.22415486]

>>22415260
Alienation.

[Anonymous No.22415543]

>>22415260
There’s nothing profound about degeneracy anon

[Anonymous No.22415642]

it doesn't mean anything

[Anonymous No.22415732]

>>22415260
Great book.the prision looking at the sky in the priaon and him refkezing what he did make me cry m. I feel idebtificated in that moment

[Anonymous No.22415739]

Autism

[Anonymous No.22415810]

>>22415739
How

[Anonymous No.22415816]

It was really hot that day.

[Anonymous No.22415850]

>>22415810
Mersault was continuously failing to comprehend and conform to social customs, and was easily overwhelmed by physical sensations.
Obviously it's a shitpost, but you could easily read the Stranger that way.

[Anonymous No.22415971]

>>22415260
it means that the best thing one can do in life is fuck bitches and get money but in a good way that is conducent to societal benefit, instead of sperging out like a retard

[Anonymous No.22416008]

>>22415260
don’t shoot people lol

[Anonymous No.22416084]

>>22415850
That's exactly how I read it and I fail to see how it can be interpreted any other way.

[Anonymous No.22416404]

>>22416084
I see what you did there ;)

[Anonymous No.22416615]

>>22416084
But he easily made friends and sexed women

[Anonymous No.22416637]

He got sun burned.

[Anonymous No.22416638]

>>22415260
> Oh I have a cute gf and a job that'd send me to a cushy position in Paris?
> You know what? I'll just ruin it all because of le sun
Shit tier plot

[Anonymous No.22416639]

>>22415260
The hero of the story is a Nietzschean "blond beast" whose actions are so great in the classical sense that society cannot tolerate him and finds a pretense to sentence him to death. He's a Jesus-like figure, but inverted. He presents a new morality based outside of the established morals of societal authority. Hence the police chief jokingly referring to him as "Antichrist", and the emphasis on his denial of religious conventions. Such conventions are relevant in the context of criminal justice, hence Camus's decision to centre the story around the hero killing a man and then being sentenced to death. It was the perfect plot vehicle to explore those themes.
Secondarily is the absurdist theme, where a series of small, unconnected, and seemingly inconsequential decisions accumulate to create a life-changing circumstance that couldn't have been foreseen. People like to focus on the initial shooting and how it was caused by the sun, which of course doesn't make sense. It was the sun that drove him to fire the additional shots, which cemented his intention in the eyes of the law as premeditated murder, due to his simple aggravation at the totality of the circumstances in the moment.

[Anonymous No.22416642]

>>22415260
moral of the story: if you're feeling weird about your life just shoot an arab

[Anonymous No.22416656]

>>22415260
The sun fucking sucks

[Anonymous No.22416687]

>>22415260
[SPOILER] As of my understanding "The Stranger" can be used double. It describes the victim of Mersault, but also how society sees himself.
Also it describes how you not only get judged for what you did, but moreover for whom people think you are.
However I failed to understand the reflection on life in the last chapters and I think I need to re-read it more carefully. But one minor catch I understood was that death is waiting nevertheless and he understands that from some perspective it makes no difference if he gets executed tomorrow or dies at some time years ahead.

[Anonymous No.22416717]

>>22415260
That life is one wild ride of absurdity. One day Mersault was mourning the death of his mother, the next he falls in love with Marie, then he kills an Arab in a fit of rage and is sentenced to death for it, and that's where his life ends.

[Anonymous No.22416770]

>>22415260
I personally prefer "The Meursault Investigation" by Kamel Daoud. It is a novel created counter to Camus's version, from the perspective of an Arab man described as the brother of the murdered man. Referred to only as "The Arab" by Camus, in this novel he is said to have been named Musa, and was an actual man who existed and was mourned by his brother and mother. It's the perfect antidote to the colonialistic novel by Camus since it retrospectively gives POCs a voice.

Take that r*cists :))

[Anonymous No.22416830]

>>22415642
Agree.

[FAC613 No.22416888]

>>22416830
it means everything

[Anonymous No.22416900]

>>22416888
same thing really.

[Anonymous No.22416902]

>>22416900
facts

[Anonymous No.22417245]

>>22415260
fuck the sun

[Anonymous No.22418403]

>>22415260
Sometimes we all just have a really bad day.
The lesson of the story is: You can shoot a guy once and it's self-defense, but shoot a guy four more times and it's murder.

[Anonymous No.22418482]

>>22415284
She really tried but you were "distant"?

[Anonymous No.22418492]

>>22416717
>mourning the death of his mother, the next he falls in love with Marie, then he kills an Arab in a fit of rage
Wrong. A huge point of the story is his indifference, never having cared for those feelings.

[Anonymous No.22418502]

>>22415284
>women
>reading comprehension
pick one

[Anonymous No.22418943]

>>22415260
He was a good boy who didnt do nothing

[Anonymous No.22419060]

>>22415312
>hey mom just fyi if you died that would be okay. I wouldn’t be like happy or whatever but it’d be fine

[Anonymous No.22419186]

>>22415260
When you get to the end of the book you realise you have wasted your time on a meaningless story.
When you get to the end of your life you realise you have wasted your time on a meaningless story.
When you get to the end of your life and your body is still alive and moving then you are liberated and you get to shoot people who harass you and intimidate you.

[Anonymous No.22419698]

>>22415260
fuck them arabs

[Anonymous No.22419720]

>>22416008
>Arabs
>people

Pick one

[Anonymous No.22420001]

>>22419698
Can someone give me the pic without the cringe anime dude

[Anonymous No.22420002]

>>22420001
no

[Anonymous No.22420014]

that's the point OP, it is absurdism. It has no meaning.

[Anonymous No.22420018]

>>22416900
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[Anonymous No.22420036]

>>22415284
you lazy bastard
just go downstairs and get some bread