Perspective Narrative in Camus' The Outsider
Number of pages:
8
ABSTRACT:
( 8 pp.) The philosophy of The Outsider (1942) is
a philosophy of the absurd. The narrator of the
piece is a middle-class bachelor, Monsieur
Meursault; we are told that he is viewed as someone
of little if any consequence. And the amazing bit
of news is that he doesn't care how he is viewed
at all, because all of society is absurd, and he is
just a small piece of it. So what one does - is
simply what one does, as Meursault really does have
a "benign indifference of the universe." This
discussion will examine how the narrator, Meursault,
aka Camus, gets that message across.
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