Camus - The Outsider

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"Nothing can describe evenings in prison."

I like this line. I reread this on holiday and it fascinated me more this time than last (about five years ago).

I don't think it's a book you can 'like' though it seems wasy to dislike. I think all this existentialist stuff stems from his goalkeeping.

What are your opinions? Has anyone on ILX ever shot an Arab for no reason?

― MikeyG (MikeyG), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I like it

― Dadrockismus (Dada), Friday, 24 September 2004 10:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Is this thread title missing an "l"?

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Friday, 24 September 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

First book I ever read in French. I think I prefer La Chute and La Peste to l'Etranger.

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 24 September 2004 14:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oddly, I find Camus prose style almost soothing. I don't dislike it, but I take your point about not really being a book to love, also.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:23 (twenty-one years ago)

So "The Outsider" is the same as "The Stranger"?

― n/a (Nick A.), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

yes.

― TOMBOT, Friday, 24 September 2004 15:30 (twenty-one years ago)

l'etranger = The Fellowship of the ring

Bah. X-post.

― Matt (Matt), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:31 (twenty-one years ago)

It was published as The Stranger in the U.S. and The Outsider in the U.K. I think "outsider" is a bad and wrong translation though, I don't know why they didn't stick with "stranger" in the UK. I reread it recently, with some trepidation because it was a favourite when I was 16, but it held up well, I think it's fantastic, I love the deadpan, hardboiled style, I love the pagan epiphany at the end, and as for the beginning - "aujourd'hui, maman est morte", how perfect is that? One of the great short novels.

― Jonathan Z. (Joanthan Z.), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

My wife is telling me that I'm a sociopath

― TOMBOT, Friday, 24 September 2004 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

Why didn't they just call it 'The Foreigner'?

― Michael White (Hereward), Friday, 24 September 2004 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha Tom!

― Dan Perry '08 (Dan Perry), Friday, 24 September 2004 16:51 (twenty-one years ago)

"oh Meursault!"
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― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Saturday, 25 September 2004 06:36 (twenty-one years ago)

How many times have I said this while drinking good, white Burgundies?

― Michael White (Hereward), Saturday, 25 September 2004 08:11 (twenty-one years ago)

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