Camus's Stranger Retried
I have always pictured Meursault as a stranger to the sentiments of other men. Love and hatred, ambition and envy, greed and jealousy are equally foreign to him. He attends the funeral of his mother as impassively as he watches, on the following day, a Fernandel movie. Eventually, Meursault kills a...
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Format: | Electronic Article |
Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press
1964
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PMLA
Year: 1964, Volume: 79, Issue: 5, Pages: 519-533 |
Further subjects: | B
Girard, René (1923-2015)
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Summary: | I have always pictured Meursault as a stranger to the sentiments of other men. Love and hatred, ambition and envy, greed and jealousy are equally foreign to him. He attends the funeral of his mother as impassively as he watches, on the following day, a Fernandel movie. Eventually, Meursault kills a man, but how could I feel that he is a real criminal? How could this man have any motive for murder? |
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ISSN: | 1938-1530 |
Contains: | Enthalten in: Modern Language Association of America, PMLA
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Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.2307/461137 |