@classicbook3: What happens when a man refuses to pretend he feels what society expects him to feel? The Stranger by Albert Camus follows Meursault, an emotionally detached man living in Algiers whose life changes after the death of his mother. He doesn't cry at her funeral. The next day, he returns to ordinaly life -swimming, dating Marie, and watching a comedy film. But after becoming involved in his neighbor Raymond's violent conflict, Meursault kills a man on a scorching beach. What follows is stranger than the murder itself. At his trial, the court focuses not only on the killing, but on the fact that Meursault didn't mourn his mother. His emotional detachment becomes evidence against him, and he is sentenced to death. In prison, Meursault confronts death, religion, and the indifference of the universe. Eventually, he stops fighting the reality of his own death-and discovers a strange sense of freedom. The Stranger-Albert Camus, in two minutes. #thestranger #albertcamus #classicbooks #ClassicNovels #classicliterature

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