The Stranger by Albert Camus in a nutshell (book review) скачать в хорошем качестве

The Stranger by Albert Camus in a nutshell (book review)

(Please do excuse my inexperience and incompetence in synthesising this review as a cause for a lesser comprehensible and satisfying watch; talking to a camera with no notes is difficult, but that's why it's worth practicing.) A brief literary recitation This work by Albert Camus aroused my interest on behalf of its overwhelming simplicity yet astounding profoundness, as the literary lightness of The Stranger feels almost betraying to its full weight. The Stranger embraces the innocent act of picking up the book and leads you to realize and confront the absurd philosophical concept that life has no inherent meaning. Further, life's essence of having no meaning - Camus implies - gives you the freedom not to pick and choose a meaning for yourself (for there exists no such thing as inherent meaning), but rather offers you the peace and assurance that attempting to find meaning is in fact an act of despair, and of no meaning either. Camus, in his following works, such as The Myth of Sisyphus, presents this absurd philosophy as both the biggest reason to commit suicide (escaping life in the absence of meaning), but also to persist in the meaningless and absurdity of life. Of course, living is the answer. The story of The Stranger, in terms of narration, follows the first-person perspective of the protagonist Meursault, who in his ordinary life appears to act almost as if he does not feel. He is not senseless, nor is he a narcissist; Meursault is merely the extreme example of Absurdity as a way of life. In the very first letters of the book, Meursaults gets the news that his mother is deceased, and that he shall attend her funeral the following day. He attends the funeral in all of it's seemingly bureaucratic nature and acts accordingly, but he does not mourn, he does not cry, nor does he even accept to see his mother one last time before the casket was buried. As he sits and awaits the priest in the cemetery, the worker there offers him a cigarette and coffee, he accepts. That same day Meursault goes to the beach with his girlfriend, not to talk about his mother, but to bathe in the sea and get laid with her. Meursault seems to almost forget his mother's death that same evening, as if it did not even occur. This is just one of the many instances illustrating the life of Meursault in The Stranger, making it a light yet exceptionally profound leap into the Absurd Philosophy of Albert Camus.