Plot Summary
A Part One The Stranger opens with the narrator, Meursault, receiving a telegram telling him his mother has died. Departing on the afternoon bus from […]
Month: January 2009
Characters
A Marie Cardona Formerly a typist in the same office as Meursault, Marie Cardona happens to be swimming where Meursault goes swimming the day after […]
Construction
A Narrative Psychological self-examinations are common in French first-person narratives, but Camus’s The Stranger gave the technique of psychological depth a new twist at the […]
Historical Perspective
A Algeria Resuming a policy of imperialist expansion after the Napoleonic era, France invaded Algeria in 1830. The French soon controlled the city of Algiers […]
Compare and Contrast
1942: Algeria is a French colony under the government of Nazi occupation. Today: The political party which established Algeria as an independent nation has lost […]
Introduction
The Sound and the Fury, published in 1929, was William Faulkner’s fourth novel and is considered his first masterpiece. The story is set in the […]
William Faulkner
The oldest of four sons of Murry Cuthbert Falkner and Maud Butler Falkner, William Cuthbert Falkner was born in New Albany, Mississippi, on September 25, […]
Plot Summary
A April Seventh, 1928 Set in Mississippi during the early decades of the twentieth century, The Sound and the Fury tells the tumultuous story of […]