![]() ![]() ![]() This murder is what separates the two parts of the story. Meursault happens upon the altercation and shoots the brother dead, not out of revenge but, he says, because of the disorienting heat and vexing brightness of the sun, which blinds him as it reflects off the brother’s knife. The brother, referred to as “the Arab,” slashes Raymond with a knife after Raymond strikes the man repeatedly. Raymond soon encounters a group of men, including the brother of his mistress. Raymond, an unsavoury friend, is eventually arrested for assaulting his mistress and asks Meursault to vouch for him to the police. This removed nature continues throughout all of Meursault’s relationships, both platonic and romantic. Despite the expressions of grief around him during his mother’s funeral, Meursault does not show any outward signs of distress. After this introduction, the reader follows Meursault through the novel’s first-person narration to Marengo, where he sits vigil at the place of his mother’s death. ![]() Or maybe it was yesterday, I don’t know.” They capture Meursault’s anomie briefly and brilliantly. The novel is famous for its first “Mother died today. ![]() The title character of The Stranger is Meursault, a Frenchman who lives in Algiers (a pied-noir). It was published as The Outsider in England and as The Stranger in the United States. The Stranger, enigmatic first novel by Albert Camus, published in French as L’Étranger in 1942. ![]()
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