![]() ![]() At first it was rendered into English by Stuart Gilbert in 1946. He spurns Marie Cardona’s romantic overtures and doesn’t offer help to Salamano to find his lost dog.Īn undoubtedly timeless philosophical classic, The Stranger or French L’Etranger was first published in French in the year 1942. Meursault also has a diabolical streak he murders a person without any apparent perceptible motive. ![]() The Stranger is interspersed with various interconnected metaphysical tenets like determinism, nihilism, naturalism, and stoicism. This nonchalant disposition earns him the epithet ‘Stranger’. He is not perturbed by anything which is associated with the mortal world. Meursault, the French Algerian protagonist wears a stoical attitude. This luminous narrative depicts motley philosophical theories by exploring the condition of the protagonist who is emotionless, dispassionate and an aberration from the so-called normal lot. The Stranger is a philosophical masterpiece based on existentialism and a manifestation of Albert Camus’s absurdist weltanschauung. ![]()
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