What are your opinions on this book, /lit/? Why is it considered

>>8356900
Go read it, make up your own mind, and then make a post about what you think and invite us to participate you literal shit of a person.

>>8356900
I just read it. I thought it was good because I liked Meursault as a character and I thought the story was good. Similar reasons to why I like genre fiction, and elitists will probably judge me for that but they can fuck right off.

>>8356900
It's well crafted but I wouldn't call it profound. It is very good though because it crafts in theme in a nifty and concise way makng you ponder the themes which are presented in the book. In merely 120 or so pages, Camus manages to make you ponder the meaning of life and the nature of good and evil.

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>>8356954
>helping this underageb& with his homework
Seriously guys, stop.

>>8356910

>literal

>>8356910

>literal

>>8356910
>literal and not /lit/eral
Kill yourself

>>8356900
camus was a great absurdist and this is the book that defines him and his thoughts on absurdism.

Camus' fiction is where you can actually feel the emotions he tries to explain in his philosophical work. As literature, though, it is depressing and empty. Not in a bad way.

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>>8357007
why do people click on threads they don't have an interest in?

>>8356900
i thought it was a weird book, not the best book i've read only for school, but not the worst, better than that trash the catcher in the rye but not nearly as good as say, one flew over the cuckoo's nest or the jungle or lord of the flies or animal farm.

I feel like the stranger is one of those books written more to prove a point than to tell a story, which is why you generally read it for english class and not at home for fun.

>>8358675
Because of sage.