Thoughts on "The Stranger" by Albert Camus
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 27 พ.ค. 2019
- This one was on the list of books Charlie reads in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". So far, that list is full of absolute gems.
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I’m with you on first-person narratives. Stranger, Catcher and Wallflower are probably my top three all time favorites novels. They are certainly the ones I’ve reread the most at of all the books I own. Good honest review.
Also, your observation that the main character observes but doesn’t participate is spot on. He watches but isn’t effected. In a very real sense, that is what he’s on trial for-for not crying at his mother’s funeral.
“it all depends on how we look at things,
and not how they are in themselves.”
-Carl Jung
This was an extremely formative book for me. While I recognized how it resonated with me when I read it in highschool, once I took Intro to Western Philosophy in college, I became entrenched with Existentialism, and it really lead me to examine who I am and what I believe.
Great review. I love blunt and to the point books like this. It works especially because it is an existential classic. Short books like this rule.
It kinda makes sense why Bill asked Charlie to read this book, Charlie got so obsessed into what’s happening around him and it made the situation worse at times. So it’s better to take a step back sometimes.
I really like this review and the way you talk about the book (:
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This is the first time I see a video of yours and once you mentioned that you read the stranger because it was mentioned in the perks of being a wallflower, I hit the subscribe button!! I literally did the same thing, I was on a quest to read all the books that Charlie recommended.
Ahhh I love to hear it!! I still haven’t finished that quest, maybe I should focus on it this year 🤔 the fountainhead and naked lunch intimidate me but they’re on my shelf
It wasn’t until the end of watching this review of the book I just finished reading, that I realized you were wrapping up reading the book I’m about to read next!! One hundred years of solitude! 😃 What are the odds!? 📖
I Loved this review Saoirse! If you'd ever find the time, I would love to hear your thoughts on Camus's "The myth of Sisyphus" (It's another short one ;) , though powerfull ).
All the best on your masters! :) Ahhh... Literature and writing. How grand it is that you are pursuing your passion. :)
This is a unique novel a great work of art transcending time and space :it’s weird unconventional: that’s why it’s name: The outsider/ Stranger : it’s on another level : therefore very deep thought provoking strangely raw and real : very relevant to all humans across the boarders :above artificiality : it’s depressing and liberating frustrating and inspiring at the same time : depends on the reader how well he understands or doesn’t :after all it’s written by Albert Camus : the best on existentialism and Life Absurdity: so that was natural and expected : such stuff glimpses can only found in Dostoevsky’s novels ..!!
Did your plans work out with grad school?
I have a very different point of view of this book but strangely it really helped me to better understand stoicism and what it is not about.
If you like those type of reads ( inside the conciousness of the characters) you would love herman hesse 🌊🌊🌊
Hate hesse
@@brunocoltrane yeah many don't like his works hahahaha , it comes to personal taste
Now I'm reading the plague which came out 5 years later I think Camus changed a bit ..this book is quite different
Obviously this is a major guess, but I think you might like 'The Road'.
Read this book in French and it’s cool to see your opinion in English
I think you’ll like of mice and men , shocking ending, short 100 page book
Awesome, let the story find you!
I thought there’re a lot of existential ideas in this book, especially at the end. “God is dead” as suggested by Nietzsche. Existentialism and absurdity...
Life is absurdity!
I didn’t like the book. He could have plead self defense but his lawyer never mentions this. The ending didn’t make sense. He wanted people to hate him? That’s out of his character. He was someone who didn’t care about anything.
By God, think I might have fallen in love a bit.
Though for the sake of not sounding like a complete douche on the internet I'd also like to contribute by recommending the lonesome dove by Larry McMurthy
.....or that your very sanity is held against you. Ive always thought it absurd that one must be sane to face trial for an intrinsically insane and irrational act like murder. Could a mind that rationalised murder really be sane?
mersault was sane but also an unfortunate fool,
he didnt actually commit the murder in the strictest sense ( he got set up to commit the crime)
it wasnt so much that a murder occured in the first place anyway either
( 2nd 1st degree? 3rd? doesnt matter)
but the InDifferencE of Mersault after he pulled the trigger, during sentencing...
thats what sentenced him to death not the murder.
what camus calls the Absurd
@@sanchezmandelbrot6130 yeah, he didnt want to redeem himself
This is my favorite book
You are so beautiful and smart and not a semi social-path!
12:08 couldn't agree more.
Going along with your interpretation of how the certainty of death and what Gandalf says, you should REALLY watch the movie Everything Everywhere All at Once. It goes along incredibly well with this and that train of thought and is a masterpiece.
3:44 UGH!
Are you Irish?
Mostly!
🧐 you are very beautiful 😍