![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() When asked if he wishes to view her body, he declines, and he smokes and drinks regular (white) coffee - not the obligatory black coffee - at the vigil held by his mother’s coffin the night before the burial. He takes time off from work to attend her funeral, but he shows no signs of grief or mourning that the people around him expect from someone in his situation. Meursault learns of the death of his mother, who has been living in an old age home in the country. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault’s first-person narrative view before and after the murder, respectively. Meursault is tried and sentenced to death. The title character is Meursault, an indifferent French settler in Algeria described as "a citizen of France domiciled in North Africa, a man of the Mediterranean, an homme du midi yet one who hardly partakes of the traditional Mediterranean culture."Weeks after his mother’s funeral, he kills an Arab man in French Algiers, who was involved in a conflict with one of Meursault’s neighbors. Its theme and outlook are often cited as examples of Camus’ philosophy, absurdism, coupled with existentialism though Camus personally rejected the latter label. The Stranger (French: L’Étranger), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella by French author Albert Camus. ![]()
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