/lit/ - Literature

is this b8 or are you genuinely an underage retard who needs to lurk?

>>13104911
You can read it in a day, just read it.

>>13104911
Literally just picked up the Everyman's Library edition of this today. It's tiny, 117 pages.

>>13104911
I enjoyed the writing style, but nothing else

>commit crime
>get arrested
>face trial
>'whoa man no you can't bring my mother into this that's not fair how absurd'

wow made me think

>>13104981
you mean vice versa?

>>13105014
nah
The narrator had the ability to be incredibly expressive while speaking simplistically. But the book boils down to 80 uneventful pages followed by 20 pages of long winded pseudo philosophical ramblings

>>13104911
tldr

>>13104911
It sucks, read Nausea by Sartre. That’s the book you’re probably expecting The Stranger to be.

>>13104998
lol what a brainlet

It's like an hour of reading, making a thread after you finish it instead

>>13105479
kek

For the love of god don't try to continue Camus by reading the Fall next.
It's the literary equivalent of a bum sitting next to you on a long bus trip and telling you his life story.