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20275073 No.20275073 [Reply] [Original]

What the fuck was his problem? Was he autistic?

>> No.20275077

The sun was too bright.

>> No.20275083

>>20275073
What do you mean?

>> No.20275135

>>20275083
Ponder the question for a moment, i think you will find the answer.

>> No.20275163
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20275163

>>20275073
he was totally distraught by his mother's death. he couldn't get a single wink of sleep. he lost track of days and couldn't remember if she died that very day or the day prior.

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>> No.20275261

>>20275163
Okay maybe but how can we know this without knowing what he was like prior to her death?

>> No.20275352

He was overweight. It's no wonder he sweat so much.

>> No.20275460

>>20275073
he was literally me

>> No.20275658

>>20275073
Pathological case of cognitive dissonance which might have been harboured by his inability of saying no to people.

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>>20275073
Arabs.

>> No.20275666

Trips plz

>> No.20275693

>>20275077
this but unironically. i lose my inhibition and get irrationally irritable when I'm too warm

>> No.20275695

>>20275666
what the fuck

>> No.20275698

>>20275695
I am a god.

>> No.20275737

>>20275698
You're Satan, not God and don't try to fool me you fag.

>> No.20275748

Hated the main character by the end of the book, didn't even care about the moral of the story by then. Was just frustrated to no end that he didn't try to argue self-defense and got executed because of it

>> No.20275918

>>20275737
Give your boipussy into me.

>> No.20275982

>>20275748
you sound like a woman. please leave my board

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>>20275666

>> No.20276134

I'd imagine it has something to do with the fact he has no bond to his family.

>> No.20276179

>>20275748
Are you retarded? What the fuck

>> No.20276433

First part was good. Second part was just a Reddit atheist cringe rant.

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>>20275666
legend

>> No.20276545

>>20276433
This but reversed

>> No.20276550

What was the moral of the story? Dont be so unemotional about everything?

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>>20275666
tell us your wisdom satan

>> No.20276567

I thought the Stranger was pretty boring desu. Tried twice and couldn't get into it.

The Myth of Sisyphus is easily one of the greatest works of modern literature tho ... imo

>> No.20276597

>>20275748
can anyone refute this?

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>>20275666
Hail Satan, moving on

>> No.20276716

he wanted to kill himself. shot the ara8 five times in total, leaving one 8ullet for himself. thats why he calls so much attention to his forehead in that scene. he wanted to shoot himself in the forehead with the last 8ullet.

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>>20276597
>can anyone refute this random opinion?

>> No.20276747

>>20276735
it's literary in the book

>> No.20276757

It makes more sense if Marsuilt was Algerian. Nothing between their ears. Except violence.

>> No.20276761

>>20276550
this is my takeaway>>20276134
he's a bugman. it's not really his fault. there is no love in his life and never has been. he more or less does not exist.

>> No.20277302

>>20276550
showing the absurdity of the world by showing how ridiculous societal standard sound when tried to be applied on somebody who doesn't care in the slightest.

>> No.20277393

>>20275666
Manners really do still matter.

>> No.20277462

>>20275073
Was he racist towards arabs? saw somone on reddit say that but I just don't see how that is the case.

>> No.20277525

>>20277462

> reddit

>> No.20277533

>>20275073
no the protag was just a retard

>> No.20277548

>>20277302
Thread

>> No.20277577

>>20276567
>literature
i dont think it counts as literature

>> No.20277581

>>20275073
he was islamophobic and he hated his mother

>> No.20277987

>>20277462
He was not racist towards arabs, the fact that "arabs" had no specific name in the novel was a direct criticism of the current relationship between french and algerian back when Algeria was a french colony.
Back then, french and algerian were able to work and live together on a "society" level but they were still separated due to their cultural differences.
It was actually common to call someone who was not in your cultural group for what they were, arabs, spanish, metropolitan etc

>> No.20278048

>>20277987
Im pretty sure reffering somonone by the group they belong to is still pretty common, atleast in EU but maybe americans think thats racist kek

>> No.20278326

>>20278048
>Referring someone by the group he belongs is common
Yes, I agree and I dont consider that racist either ( EU as well )
It is probably because the arabs were never named, it was also the case during the trial.
The trial is supposed to be a criticism of the Nuremberg Trial, imo the "trolldit" guy purposely misinterpreted this aspect of the novel to make the statement that Camus was racist.

>> No.20278847

>>20277462
Considering Camus wrote several articles decrying France’s treatment of Arabs when he was a journalist it seems unlikely. And even if Mersault was it would probably be meant to show how fucked up it was that no one really gave a shit about the dead man in particular because he was an Arab.

>> No.20279321

>>20275073
He deserved to die for accepting that coffee

>> No.20279364
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20279364

Is this thread some kind of in-joke? Am I not getting the humor of this place?

At the risk of ruining your party, I just wanted to point out that The Stranger is basically an entry level book for people interested in existentialism through a nihilistic lens. Camus centralized the absurd as the focal point of the story, not the main character. You can clearly see this by the apathy he feels (or rather lack of feeling) for everything and himself, the meaninglessness of death (his mother, the guys he randomly shoots etc.) and he grotesque nature of how he conducts himself during the story. The Stranger is an extremely simple novel, but it's supposed to be this way. Bland, jaded and full of all-encompassing contempt for rationality.

Some say that Camus was a glorified novelist instead of a philosopher, and I tend to agree for the most part, but that doesn't mean he didn't infuse philosophy into his novels.

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>>20277462
this has to be bait

>> No.20280003

>>20275073
He literally did nothing wrong

>> No.20280012

>>20280000
>>20280001
>>20279999

>> No.20280018

>>20275666
FUCK SATAN
FUCK SATAN
FUCK SATAN

>> No.20280040

>>20280018
I'm not Satan. But I did make that post

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>>20275666
Okay... I'm listening.

>> No.20280792

>>20275073
quantity > quality

>> No.20280843

>>20275748
>Hated the main character by the end of the book,
missing the point this badly

>> No.20280916

>>20275666
Whao

>> No.20281722

>>20280843
>missing the point
what was the point? that we outcast those who abandon society and live like a ghost?

Mersault was a pleb who just lusted an lived like a NPC in other words APATHY

>> No.20281766

>>20275666
Christsisters... we lost

>> No.20281783

>>20275163
this is decent bait

>> No.20283453

>>20281722
No he was the opposite of an NPC, unlike an npc he does not give a single fuck about what society thinks of him and he does not act according to societal norms.

>> No.20283572

>>20275666
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST

>> No.20283631

the point was that the media made a big deal out of his case and for him to survive he had to put on a mask, which he refused to do. the idea wasn't if he was guilty or not, the conflict was if he deserves the death penalty. though I still find the conflict forced, as the frog was a murderer either way.

>> No.20284396

>>20275073
islamophobic misogynist with unresolved mommy issues and a schizoid personality disorder

>> No.20285062

I founf the book to be pretty fucking stupid, like something for pretentious autists to read so that they can be like "OMG BRO HE LITERALLY LIKE ME FR FR I GOT NO FEELINGS AND DON'T CARE ABOUT ANYTHING TOO!!!"

The first part maybe is decent but the rest just reads like a rant you'd get from r/atheism or some "based" youtube influencer, plus the guy somehow thinking that he's being jailed and sentenced to death for being a le special boy for don't give a frick about then heckin stupid social norms and not for... you know, murdering a man and cooperating in another crime.

So yeah, pretty pretentious book with a retard protagonist that only strenghened my belief that nihilists are a waste of space.

>> No.20285675

>>20275073
Existentialism is literally just daddy issues, same applies for mersault, no father to instill good and evil led him to being an outlier morally and portrayed as the antichrist for having an undifferentiated mind

>> No.20285700

>>20275666
I HATE THE ANTICHRIST

>> No.20285724

>>20276561
Um the board is so slow this isn’t hard