The Outsider -

Albert Camus

Penguin Books

2000

128 páginas

4h 16m

ISBN-13: 9780141389585

'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.'

Sandra Smith's new translation, based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954, sensitively renders the subtleties and dream-like atmosphere of L'Étranger.

In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.

Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd, and revolting against the injustice of society, depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world.

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Minha primeira leitura do Camus, gostei bastante da escrita e do tema do livro. achei genial como ele explora o fato de que muitas vezes as pessoas não sabem lidar com quem tem diferentes filosofias de vida como o Mersault