Albert camus the stranger review

The story opens with Meursault receiving the news that his mother, who he put into an old age home, has died. Camus’ opening line, declaring from the first-person perspective that the speaker isn’t sure whether or not his mother died today or yesterday, is quite memorable.

It is this line that draws you in and makes you want to know more.

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It’s not the content, but the structure. Who is this person that speaks so frivolously about the death of their own mother? What is the rest of their life like?

Meursault’s Journey 

Meursault does not disappoint.

He goes on a condensed journey through The Stranger. We encounter him as he deals with some of life’s major changes and curveballs. There’s the death of his mother, but he also experiences violence, what should’ve been, or could’ve been, love, happiness, and grief, all alongside freedom and imprisonment. 

I remember reading The Stranger for the first time and