Albert Camus

«Quand la sonnerie a encore retenti, que la porte du box s'est ouverte, c'est le silence de la salle qui est monté vers moi, le silence, et cette singulière sensation que j'ai eue lorsque j'ai constaté que le jeune journaliste avait détourné les yeux. Je n'ai pas regardé du côté de Marie. Je n'en ai pas eu le temps parce que le président m'a dit dans une forme bizarre que j'aurais la tête tranchée sur une place publique au nom du peuple français.»

L'étranger est le premier roman d'Albert Camus, Prix Nobel de littérature en 1957.

L’étranger

ghost girl in satin

C'était "bien", un "bon livre", une "bonne lecture", agréable et, en un sens, instructive, mais je n'en suis pas ressortie transportée comme beaucoup. L'écriture était intéressante et entraînante, le récit était teinté d'humour noir et de réflexions philosophiques. J'ai bien aimé. Surtout la fin. Je comprends que ce livre ait connu un grand succès mais il ne me marquera pas plus que cela. Sans doute parce que tout le monde n'a cessé de me rabâcher les oreilles avec ce classique incontournable, ce qui m'a fait penser qu'il devait être exceptionnel au-delà des limites...

désirée

Mila Challenger

Did i miss the point entirely? maybe, idk, this book made very little sense to me but i understand and respect it’s poetic value
no i just googled it i did in fact understand it it just doesn’t really resonate with me- it was v readable though so i’d recommend it to all ye existentialist literature lovers

this was good, but it did not match la peste for me. after reading la peste i was left with a heart so full, and after reading this one im not completely empty – i definetly have many questions, and honestly i wish i could analyse this book in class to maybe perceive another dimension to it that would blow my mind some more – but it's just not the same. i could feel that this was not the exact same camus that wrote la peste, and that he and his writing definetly had an evolution in between this time. but what do i do now if i want to read more of his books and have nothing that will make me feel like la peste again? *

jude

this was good, but it did not match la peste for me. after reading la peste i was left with a heart so full, and after reading this one im not completely empty – i definetly have many questions, and honestly i wish i could analyse this book in class to maybe perceive another dimension to it that would blow my mind some more – but it's just not the same. i could feel that this was not the exact same camus that wrote la peste, and that he and his writing definetly had an evolution in between this time. but what do i do now if i want to read more of his books and have nothing that will make me feel like la peste again? *head in hands*

Abigaël Chevillard 

It is a really good book and very well written in an uncommon way but which is making it pretty easy and fast to read.
It was pretty interesting with a reflexion about the death sentence and french justice, which were depicted as pretty absurd (this book was published in 1942 and the death sentence was abolished in France in 1981).
I recommend it if you want to read a french classic that isn't complicated but has a message.

L’étranger

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