Introduction
Camus gave the world a new kind of hero when The Stranger and the accompanying essay collection The Myth of Sisyphus burst upon the literary […]
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Albert Camus lived in a period of remarkable turmoil in the world-two world wars were fought, and colonized countries began independence struggles-notably India and Algeria. […]
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 […]
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 […]