He’s reliable enough and his boss is thinking about sending him to the new office in Paris.
He works in an office in a shipping company. The heat is blinding and staggering.īack in Algiers, Meursault resumes his everyday life. His mother was in an old home when she died, and the first chapters describe his going to the home and attending the funeral. Meursault is a young bachelor living in Algiers during the French colonization.
Now it’s my daughter’s turn to read it and I decided to read it along with her.įor those who haven’t read this stunning novella by Albert Camus, it opens with some of the most famous sentences of French literature. I was fourteen when I read it and I remember that I enjoyed it despite studying it in class. Like a lot of French teenagers, I studied L’Etranger in school. I’ll stick to the French title to keep everyone happy even if I think that The Outsider is a better title. Preamble: I know that L’Etranger by Albert Camus has been translated into The Outsider or The Stranger. The Outsider / The Stranger by Albert Camus (1942) Original French title: L’Etranger.
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