The Stanger Albert Camus Analysis

Albert Camus is an Algerian-born French author and philosopher. Camus is widely known to be the father of Absurdism, the rejection of a purpose in a meaningless world. One of his very first works, The Stanger, is centered on absurdity. The Stanger is a story about an Algerian clerk who commits murder, but, strangely enough, he is convicted because of his apathy towards his mother’s death. Using his beliefs and experience in poverty/life, Camus demonstrates that the world of The Stranger is absolutely irrational by using symbols and themes such as morality and the absurd. Camus’s misfortunate past forces him to have an outlook on mortality, which is a major theme in his early work (World Literature Criticism 582). Camus is born into poverty. Sadly, Camus’s father is killed in World War I, leaving him with his disabled mother alone at a very young age (Heims). Before beginning his studies, Camus contracts tuberculosis, a serious diseases that mainly affects the lungs, which hinders his chances to begin his university studies (World Literature Criticism 582). When he is finally in University, Camus starts his transition to becoming a writer (Heim). Camus starts by writing newspaper articles in The Algerian Journal “Sud” (Magill’s Survey of World Literature 464). …show more content…
In the “Myth of Sisyphus, Camus developed key concept of absurdisms and mortality which helps address many of the important concepts in The Stanger. The conflict in “The Myth of Sisyphus” is mainly suicide which is philosophical problem rooted from his own painful experience. (Heims). After all, during Camus’s life, he had to deal with suicidal thoughts that mostly conjured itself up because of his tuberculosis. “The Myth of Sisyphus” is considered a supporting piece to The Stanger. Camus wrote The Stanger during World War II. Camus’s idea is to show the struggles of individuals in his