![]() This removed, disconnected attitude remains unchanged throughout most of the novel. Or yesterday maybe, I don’t know,” he callously states in the famous opening line. The Stranger ( L’Étranger in French), Albert Camus’ first novel, is about a man named Meursault. When I was young, they told me it meant “gift.” Later, when I tried to independently validate this through a Google search of my own, I found out that, although this is the Greek meaning, in Irish, the name means “exile,” or “stranger.” As I have grown, I have come to realize it is this last meaning that I find most true to myself. ![]() My parents got the name “Doran” from a big book of baby names with storks carrying babies and kittens in baskets on its cover. ![]() “The Literature of the Absurd” is a reflection on prominent authors in the Absurdist tradition - Beckett, Camus and beyond - and the ways in which their writings can intertwine with life in sometimes surprising ways. ![]()
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