Friday, September 21, 2007

Reading Camus

Albert Camus' L'Etranger.

I always read this in the autumn, just as the children are heading back to school.

This might seem odd because the book mostly takes place in the hot Algerian summer, but this novel reminds me of French class in grade 11 where the teacher introduced me to this classic of existentialist writings. Although I now understand that Camus himself would have given it another label, absurdist perhaps, reading the novel always takes me back to being young and impressionable to outsiders and writings about outsiders.

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