Stranger
COMMUNICATION S skills | BOOK REVIEW | HASSAN NAWAZ LALEE NUST-201201264 | SECTION:A | STRANGER BY ALBERT CAMUS
ABOUT THE BOOK: WRITTEN BY: ALBERT CAMUS TRANSLATED BY: STUART GILBERT PUBLISHED: IN 1942(FRENCH), IN 1943(English) ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH TYPE: Philosophical novel PUBLISHER: Libraire Gallimard BASED UPON: …Absurdism (conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any) … Irrationality (an action or opinion given through inadequate use of reason, emotional distress, or cognitive deficiency) …Importance of social life THEMES: The irrationality of the universe; the meaninglessness of human life; the importance of the physical world MOTIFS: Decay and death; watching and observation
* ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND HIS VIEW TOWARD THE WORLD EXPRESSED IN THE NOVEL: Albert Camus was a French-Algerian journalist, playwright, novelist, writer of philosophical essays, and Nobel laureate born in 1913 and died in 1960. He got Nobel Prize in 1957 in literature. Literarily classified as an existential novel, the stranger depicts writer’s theory of absurdism. For Camus, life has no rational meaning or order. We have trouble dealing with this notion and continually struggle to find rational structure and meaning in our lives. This struggle to find meaning
ABOUT THE BOOK: WRITTEN BY: ALBERT CAMUS TRANSLATED BY: STUART GILBERT PUBLISHED: IN 1942(FRENCH), IN 1943(English) ORIGINAL LANGUAGE: FRENCH TYPE: Philosophical novel PUBLISHER: Libraire Gallimard BASED UPON: …Absurdism (conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent value and meaning in life and the human inability to find any) … Irrationality (an action or opinion given through inadequate use of reason, emotional distress, or cognitive deficiency) …Importance of social life THEMES: The irrationality of the universe; the meaninglessness of human life; the importance of the physical world MOTIFS: Decay and death; watching and observation
* ABOUT THE AUTHOR AND HIS VIEW TOWARD THE WORLD EXPRESSED IN THE NOVEL: Albert Camus was a French-Algerian journalist, playwright, novelist, writer of philosophical essays, and Nobel laureate born in 1913 and died in 1960. He got Nobel Prize in 1957 in literature. Literarily classified as an existential novel, the stranger depicts writer’s theory of absurdism. For Camus, life has no rational meaning or order. We have trouble dealing with this notion and continually struggle to find rational structure and meaning in our lives. This struggle to find meaning