The Stranger
Albert Camus, 1942
A clerk in sunstruck Algiers reports his own indifference to love, grief and guilt with unnerving calm.
Albert Camus
Feels like unease, death and solitude.
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Camus, born in Algeria, kept goal for a university football team until tuberculosis ended his playing; The Stranger appeared in occupied Paris in 1942.
The moment a man decides he has nothing left to confess.
I don’t know why, but something inside me snapped. I started yelling at the top of my lungs, and I insulted him and told him not to waste his prayers on me. I grabbed him by the collar of his cassock. I was pouring out on him everything that was in my heart, cries of anger and cries of joy. Books by Albert Camus
The Plague
Albert Camus, 1947
A port city is sealed off by plague, and ordinary people must decide what decency costs when the routines that held them together stop.
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