Peter Gallagher

Camus’ The Stranger & Its Philosophical Background

Albert Camus’ novel, The Stranger, appealed to a younger European generation that was trying to find its view of life after the tragedies of WWII and Nazism. Though he eventually came to more mature notions of how a human being should act before his tragic death from a accident in 1960, Camus always believed in the ideas expressed in The Stranger that man must find his own meaning in life, separate from religious or political doctrine. While he was brought up a Catholic, he largely rejected religious authority and he opposed any rigid political authority because of his experiences with totalitarianism. Marxism and Communism were popular political ideas in France at the time, but Camus came to reject any kind of systematic philosophy, whether it was in politics or in the church. The Stranger well illustrates these philosophical ideas of his.
In many ways The Stranger comes across as a very odd book. The......

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