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The Stranger

Albert Camus, 1942

Short read, about 159 pages

A clerk in French Algiers who won't pretend to feel what he doesn't.

Talk about it

  1. How did you feel about Meursault in the opening chapters?
  2. Why do you think people around him are so troubled that he won't perform feelings?
  3. What does the heat and light of Algiers add to the story?

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