“If I smoked cigarettes, I would sit at a train station with this book and light up.” – Me when I was 19 and thought smoking looked super cool, maybe in part due to this book’s iconic cover, but that’s a conversation for another day.
Tag: existentialism
Ah, existentialism. The word conjures images of French cafes, cigarettes and black and white photos, but what is it really?
I first discovered Albert Camus’s philosophy when I was 17, pretty depressed and desperate for something to replace the “hope” that hitherto had been provided by religious faith.
There’s a lot to unpack in this book.
I spend a lot of time thinking about death.
Does anyone remember that time when the government put us on semi house arrest for like a year because of a disease? And it sucked?
Albert Camus’s The Stranger may be a short novel, but it definitely packs a punch. An existential-dread-inducing punch but nevertheless a comforting one. It’ll make more sense when I explain that.
So, the narrator of this book is utterly unhinged.
Frappes and Fiction 