Foreign

I was going to die earlier than others - that was obvious. But as everyone knows - life is not worth living. Meursault - The day he learns that his mother has died, he sets out to attend the funeral - the weather is very hot. What he feels throughout the day is nothing more than stimuli from the outside world. Heat and light disturb him. His attention is on his own body. While everyone expects an emotional response from him as a son, attention is paid to that sensory world. However, his indifference is not only about his mother's death. It is this same indifference that will lead him to commit an irreparable act - walking on a deserted beach a few days later. Meursault - who refuses to pretend that there is meaning where there is none - is what forms the starting point of The Stranger. By bringing together the basic elements of the philosophy of the absurd in Meursault, Camus creates a cult novel that reveals the impasse between the social order and the freedom of the individual and the alienation of the individual from himself and society. “Camus's pessimism is not acceptance - on the contrary, it is a call for action, even rebellion. "Even though we have mixed feelings towards Meursault after finishing the novel, we believe that the world is not a good place and needs to change." Mario Vargas Llosa