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The Stranger Reading Schedule

The Stranger Reading Schedule. Part 1: must be finished by Thurs-Fri, Feb 20-21when you arrive to class Part 2: must be finished by Thurs, March 6-7 when you arrive to class. Albert Camus:. Born in Mondovi, Algeria in 1913 Killed instantly in car accident in 1960 while on route to Paris

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The Stranger Reading Schedule

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  1. The Stranger Reading Schedule • Part 1: must be finished by Thurs-Fri, Feb 20-21when you arrive to class • Part 2: must be finished by Thurs, March 6-7 when you arrive to class

  2. Albert Camus: • Born in Mondovi, Algeria in 1913 • Killed instantly in car accident in 1960 while on route to Paris • Nobel Prize winner for literature in 1957 • Background of poverty and harsh existence • Suffered from TB • The Stranger is translated from French • Novel first published in 1942

  3. Setting of the novel: a few years before WWII in Algeria

  4. Characters: Meursault Celeste Mersault’s mother The Director Marie Cardona The Prosecutor Raymond Sintes Masson The Chaplain The Arab Thomas Perez Salamano The Magistrate The Caretaker

  5. What to look for: • The specifics of the absurd • Symbols • Motifs • Development of themes • Archetypes • Characterization from the beginning to the end of the novel • Imagery in the characters’ names

  6. Images • Camus’ style • The use of time • Colonialism/Racism • Psychoanalysis/Freud • Plot development • Elements of the Grotesque • How many other literary devices can you find as you read?

  7. Elements of the Absurd: • We live in meaningless isolation in a alien universe: basis of existentialism • We come from nothingness-to nothingness-through existence masked by anguish and absurdity • Language is an inadequate form of communication • Logic and reason have failed • Religion is inadequate • God is dead. Man killed God. Man no longer needs God

  8. Man must rely on self-act deliberately • Life= competitive, exploitative, severe, strong • Tragedy of life=not exerting individuality • Man must be more than ordinary-essential will is all important • We must rely on ourselves in a struggle • To assert self or not: that is the question

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