If you are looking to read something different and have an unexpected experience, this hopeless novel is for you.
The Stranger by Albert Camus is the recommendation of Camilasbooks, a very interesting novel that shows an apathetic sense of existence, The story begins with the death of the protagonist's mother, and from there we accompany the character on a rather strange journey.
Meursault, the protagonist, is shown to be totally indifferent to what he experiences, with profound apathy for everything around him and without any reason for hope, experiencing a feeling of losing absolutely everything.
"You can see that hopeless feeling and the author transmits it very well to the reader who, when he was reading the book, saw everything so depressing, it was so sad, it was really so nothing and in the end you manage to connect with the protagonist's feelings in a very personal way.”, he mentioned.
Camilasbooks highlighted that The story is shown without any marked feeling, it is just what happens because it is something that could not be avoided simply because life is like that.
He also added that the novel becomes quite interesting because the protagonist is alien to everything moral and his actions do not really lead to a feeling of repentance, although he commits many morally inappropriate actions such as murders, being in places that are not appropriate, all of this narrated from the same line of total hopelessness, this makes this book so interesting.
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