Thursday, March 27, 2008

Notes on The Stranger by Camus

Notes on The Stranger by Camus:

-The Stranger as the depiction of the Un-man, one of the "men without chests," lacking in natural affections, a malaise peculiar to modernities specific defromities.

-The Stranger as the depiction of the psychopathology of modernity.

-The psychopathologing of modernity, as depicted in characters like Raskolnikov and Meursault, is integrally related to modernity's methodical imbalance.

-Doestovesky, Camus, etc. as modernity being authentic, revealing the disease beneath Enlightenment rhetoric, the wounds it has not cured.

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