stranger

However, his honesty turned out to be evidence of his evil soul.

Mossot was a young French man living in French Algeria. He accidentally shot and killed an Arab and was arrested pending trial. This was originally a relatively simple case, but because there was no big news in the summer, it became a major event that attracted much attention in the newspapers.

Mossot's personality of usually keeping a distance from others and not talking empty talk was dug out as evidence of antisocial personality; sending his mother to a nursing home and not crying when her mother passed away became irrefutable evidence of having no conscience; drinking coffee and smoking at the wake night , which makes people more reasonably infer that he is a guy worse than a beast. The prosecutor said that the defendant mentally killed his mother and was the source of social corruption, and asked the judge to impose the death penalty. However, no one talks about the murdered Arab...

"The Stranger" demonstrates Camus' sensitive understanding of the world. The absurdity of the world comes from the gap between personal ideas and reality, but reality is made up of the wonderful human heart, and it is everyone who makes up the absurdity of the world. This novel is a brief but extremely powerful expression of the characteristics of human society, and it is still relevant to this day.

Camus's first cry work attracted attention. "The Stranger" was published in 1942 during the occupation of France, which was the beginning of his first creative stage. The first stage of Camus's planning was the "Absurd" series, whose works included the novel "The Stranger", the essay "The Myth of Sisyphus", and the plays "Caligula" and "Misunderstanding". "The Stranger" is the most popular work. According to statistics, as of 2011, the cumulative sales volume in France alone has exceeded 10 million copies. It is an important work that changed the history of post-war French literature.