The stranger

The Stranger (L'Etranger) is a novel by Albert Camus . The first edition was published in 1942 by publishing house Gallimard . In 1967 Luchino Visconti a film . The novel is generally seen as an existential parable . In 2011 the book was re-filmed by Felix Cleeff with Philippe Saba in the lead role. [1] In 2013 the book appeared in a comic book written by Jacques Ferrandez .



Content
*1 Summary  ==Summary   == The main character, Meursault is an introverted, unworldly man who commits a murder for which he is sentenced to death. In the first part - which is told from the perspective of Meursault (he is the protagonist) - what preceded the murder and the murder itself discussed.
 * 2 Backgrounds
 * 3 Trivia
 * 4   Literature

Meursault is a clerk in a shipping company. If he receives notice of the death of his mother, he returned to the village where she lived in a home. During the funeral, he shows no sorrow, nor commitment. He appears a man without ambition, without emotional involvement with others and totally indifferent to life. For Meursault state happiness equal to a routine existence that is free of changes. He meets Marie, a woman he was once in love. The day after the funeral he begins a relationship with her.

Raymond Sintes neighbor, who is suspected of a pimp to be, insists his friendship in Meursault. Sintes has a mistress whom he delivers a dirty trick with the help of Meursault. Her brother (an Arab) swears revenge.When Meursault, Masson (a friend of Raymond Sintes) and Sintes on the beach cross the path of the brother and his friends formed a brawl. One of the friends of the Arab pulls a knife and wounds Raymond. His friends take him to their beach house when Meursault returns to the gun Sintes, he comes back to the Arab, the brother of the mistress against. The heat of the moment and a suspicious movement of the other, he pulls the gun and fired at the man. Afterwards he shoot him four times.

The second part of the novel deals with the trial of Meursault. In the process rather than the murder itself seems to be central (it concerned "only Arab"), but whether Meursault able to repent. The fact that he showed no grief at the death of his mother and that he was so soon after the funeral began a relationship, make him suspicious. That he is alleged to have been ungodly interference. Throughout the process, he provides no defense. Eventually him his lack of remorse and apparent numbness heavily against: he is sentenced to death.

Death Row Meursault gets a visit from a chaplain who tries to convert him. Meursault ignites this in anger, and he seems to be reconciled with his fate. For the first time, he is open to the "tender indifference of the world" and his death will be the highlight of his absurd existence.

Backgrounds
Albert Camus is the writer initially existentialism embraced. But Camus later developed its own vision of the meaning of existence (or more precisely, the lack thereof). This vision, which absurdism is called Camus took first expressed in The Myth of Sisyphus .

While existentialism still sees a hero to humans as long as it transcends itself and independently without accountability really exists, the absurdity see the hero as someone who the meaninglessness of life and recognizes such and still wants to live. This theme forms the philosophical framework in which the alien is happening.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Meursault is emotionally independent and free, he does not grieve for his mother who escaped in his eyes at the absurdity of existence. But true freedom he does not know. He's locked in ignorance and later also in his cell, deprived of physical liberty. When approaching his death, however, he sees the opportunity arise truly be free from - paradoxically also - to take responsibility for his own life. He also hopes that his execution will be attended by many people, that his heroism did not go by unnoticed.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Meursault is by no means an immoral or unjust man. He regards it as immoral if he would escape his fate by themselves do differently than he really is. And his sense of truth and justice compel not to admit him to demonstrate the supposed duty repentance. He feels no remorse and would rather die than to lie about that.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;font-size:14px;">Meursault was, like Albert Camus himself, a pied-noir (= "black feet"), or a person of European (French) origin who lived as a colonist in [Algeria]. In that sense, he was literally a stranger. But his position as the misunderstood man makes him a strange hero. ==<span class="mw-editsection" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">Trivia ==
 * The stranger was in 1999 in Le Mondes election of the top 100 Century Books by the French readership at No. 1 choice. In 2002 the book was also included in the list of 100 best books of world literature, formed on the initiative of the joint Norwegian book clubs and the Swedish Academy .

Literature

 * Camus, A.,  The Stranger, (tr .: Morriën, A. ) The Busy Bee, Amsterdam, 1st edition 1949 2004 <sup style="line-height:1;">27.