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Albert Camus Reflection

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Albert Camus is a writer who has taken up with more decision and clarity, than any other writer that I have read till now, the intellectual and moral implications, as well as the human poignancy, of the absurdities of life (despair, rigid to accepting general solutions, evil inside every human). I loved the simplicity in which he dealt with an otherwise much complicated subject. The book has a voice which anyone can connect to some way or the other but somehow if it does not it will at-least resonate like a siren in your head. I connected to the voice; the voice of the anti hero’s assessment of the world, the meaningless life, the absurdities of a human being and the coldness towards the society ‘laws/solutions’. “Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.” …show more content…

He doesn't drop a tear during the funeral, denies to see his mother’s face for the last time, and the day after the funeral, he goes swimming, starts an affair, and then walks leisurely with the woman to the theatre to watch a comedy. A week later, he shoots an Arab to death by pulling the trigger; no, precisely the way Meursault says “the trigger gave way” 5 times. Why?? Answer: "Because of the sun." He is then found guilty of everything in his life: his personality, his habits, his tolerance, his indifference, his daily life, as well as his

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