Comments on The Stranger by Camus
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Comments on The Stranger by Camus
The Stranger by Albert Camus was published in 1942 in its original French, and four years later, in English. With over ten million readers since its publication, it is one of the most recognized works of existential fiction, along with Sartre’s Nausea. The Stranger tells the story of Meursault, who his convicted and sentenced for a murder. Camus uses this character to demonstrate what he called “the absurd man,” someone who has recognized the absurdity of human existence and accepts this belief to the death.
Channels mentioned:
0:53 Camus the Artist
Tootight Lautrec’s channel:
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2:51 Executed for A State of Mind
Christy Luis-Dostoevsky in Space channel:
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5:06 Conforming to Expectation
Lady Jane Books’ channel:
/ @ladyjanebooks
6:55 What Does Matter?
Gunpowder Fiction and Plot’s channel:
/ @gunpowderfictionplot
Further reading:
Alice Kaplan’s “Looking for the Stranger”
press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/...
Oliver Gloag’s Introduction
www.amazon.ca/Albert-Camus-Ve...
Albert Camus’s collected essays
www.amazon.ca/Lyrical-Critica...
Great discussion! I've just started reading The Fall because I think you mentioned that's going to be your next Camus focus? I ordered a used copy on eBay and when it showed up, it turned out to be a French edition. So I ordered another so that I could read it in English the first time, and then I plan to re-read it in the original French!
Oh nice! That is great to hear! Personally, I think I actually like The Fall better. Or at least, I did when first reading Camus. It is very different than The Stranger, but just as poetic and deep. Hope you enjoy it! 😎
I am so glad I discovered your channel and I am beating myself up for not doing it sooner. I havent read The Stranger but adding it to my tbr right away. :)
Oh! Thank you so much! I am glad I found your channel as well!😊
And yes! It is a short read, but also very deep. There tends to be more contemplation than there is reading haha😊😎
Just saw that you reached over 1000 subs!! Congrats!! Really enjoyed returning to the novel and expanding on past videos!!
Thank you very much, my friend! It has been a fun series! 😊
Your videos and your understanding of the material are great to watch and hear. Keep it up man 👍👏
Thank you very much! I am glad they come across well!😊😊
What a wonderful response video with the comments and discussion! This channel is a great inspiration for intellectual discourse.
I really wanted to work your last comment in, as it keeps coming up in my mind. I may be coming back to it 😂🤣
@@attention5638 Thank you! It could be a whole video in and of itself. Have fun with it. :)
@@jeremyfee It really can be! Haha
I like this format. Still great discussion, plus it's nice when other people and channels get brought in. Also a great vehicle for additional commentary from a different angle. I'd watch more of these :)
Thank you so much, Emilee!😊 I am thinking on doing another one, but should probably, eventually, do a tag video, as I am so far behind hahah😅
more and more I am loving this series :D love how you discuss such deeper things!
Thank you so much, Hugo! I think I will come back to this series, for sure 😊
Like the world and universe we inhabit is indifferent to the goings on and emotions of us simple and insignificant humans so is Meursault indifferent and just understanding his mothers death is just something that happened. Great video
Yes, exactly! He even says this in so many words on the last few pages. Thanks for checking it out!😎
I loved this video!!!😍 I don't have time to look through all the wonderful comments on your awesome videos... and half this stuff goes over my head anyway... so these are great and I feel smarter just for watching this 🤗
Oh good! I do plan on doing another one of these eventually, and probably end up doing one for all the works I cover like this. I am glad to hear they help!😊😊
You really do get some quality intelligent comments, honoured to be included in the list, thank you.
This series is really exercising my brain in a way it hasn't worked for a long time. I would love you too discuss more questions, but I'd watch anything you thought was of value to the conversion, because I'm learning.
Thank you so much! What you had brought up was a very important note that I didn't want to leave undone, as it does get brought up a lot when discussing this subject, so thank you for giving me that opportunity! 😊😊
Awesome! Loved hearing these responses and would totally watch another video based on more comments. 😊
Thank you so much! I may have to do that!😊😊
Great idea, I found a lot of value in the continued conversations in the comments and I hadn't seen all of these. Even better seeing your responses
Oh! That is great to hear! I think I will end up doing a second part. 😊
You get such fantastic comments on here that it’s great you are doing a video directly addressing them. Yours is one comments section that I always make sure I read thoroughly (and then feel rather inadequate after doing so 😂). But, seriously, I can’t believe you didn’t include my question about the ducks! 😉😅
Hahah Thank you so much, I have been quite surprised to see so much reaction to these videos. I did not expect them to do as well. And Yes!! Actually, I have had so many people comment on the ducks, I thought if I do another one, I would have to include them all hahah, but there may be no answer to the question of why. Haha. 😊😊
OH MY! I am so honored to be included in this video! I am also so happy that you found value in my contributions. I have throughly enjoyed all of these discussions, and would love another installment of these comment discussions. I also loved the discussion of how he died being more important than only the fact that he died. That was an interesting thought. Excellent video as always! Thank you, Pae! 🙂
Of course! I thought what you said there went very well with some of the other comments, and added a lot to the over all discussion, so thank you very much! 😊😊
Great video! These are great points! I think I agree with Camus, we've created a whole system to get revenge and we call it justice. I live in the first southern state to abolish the death penalty and that was like this year haha
Oh wow! I was actually meaning to look up which States still have capital punishment.
I never thought Meursault was emotionless, but was so honest that society rejected him. However, I actually liked his relationship with Marie. Because he was honest and upfront with her, she seemed to appreciate him even more. Great video! I’d be interested in more of these comments! 😊
Every time I'm honest, I get sent to the corner...😭😭😭
Though I do understand the difference between a harsh truth and "letting them down slowly" I do agree, it is best to just be up front. 😊😊
Hahah, that got me 😅😂 I have never sent you to the corner!
@@stevencorey1278 this is true! He has never sent you to the corner 😂
@@attention5638 It's always the gals that send me to the corner. I just try to jump on the bandwagon of crude humor they engage in on the live streams and BAM! it's into the corner I go. I feel...overmatched...to quote NO COUNTRY FOR OLD MEN.👴
Excellent video! Very interesting about his stance against capital punishment! I love all the different ways of exploring the concept of the stranger, how it can be condemning from society, but in a way-at the end-kind of liberating. I think existentialism is often mistaken for nihilism and what you pointed out in the last few pages seems to distinguish why Meursault's stance is existentialist. He seems to find a sense of agency through the construction of personal meaning, and like you said, it's not careless. You can let me know if I misunderstood any of that. I really should read this book! 😅 Great job responding to comments!
Oh! I don't think you misunderstood anything--that is dead on. Though Camus did not see himself as an existentialist, it is for reasons like this that many people do put him with the existentialists of his time. I may have to do a second video like this after all--I could go on about this for quite a while haha. But for now, this is absolutely correct, thank you!
@@attention5638 Oh that's good to know that he didn't consider himself an existentialist. These videos have been fantastic!
Awesome video my man as always.
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Thank you very much!😊😎
@@attention5638 😎🔥
As I sure you've learned from Tom's series on The Divine Comedy, the comments add a richness to the discussion. I'm deliberately late watching those videos so I can read the comments. This series on The Stranger is no different. My opinion of the novel hasn't changed based off of these videos, but I'm glad I read it so I could be part of the conversation.
I am glad you read it too! There are a lot of classics I don't get along with, and when it comes to this one, particularly, it is a very specific concept that a lot of people just don't care for, and there is nothing wrong with that!😊
What a thrill to be included in a conversation about one of my favorite books with so many intelligent people! This kind of video is exceptionally good at making one feel a part of a community of readers and thinkers (even if I weren't included as a commenter). It's a great way to continue a conversation about works that matter, and it's interesting in its own right. Thanks for including me.
Oh, of course! It was a very important distinction made and I wanted to address it properly. Especially since Camus himself would have highly agreed. I have been really glad to see such engagement with this series, I really did not expect there to be so much. So thank you! 😊
Hello my friend very nice video 👍❤️
Thank you so much!!😊😊
I understand that about emotions.. there are topics I’m thought to be emotionless but I just have different emotions than others. In certain situations when most is crying..I do not..things like that. Just depends
Yeah, I the same way. I think it is better understood than it was 50 years ago, but not completely 😊😊
Finally rewatched this.
I find it so hard to collect my thoughts in a way to put them into a comment.
I would still prefer a real conversation. 😉
But at least I am able to say, that I really enjoy when you are doing this kind of videos.
Probably I will come back later with more in depth thoughts about this great piece of philosophical literature.
Oh most definitely! I always like to have more in depth conversations about these kind of works! Maybe one day, we will be able to set something up!😎
I just got done working on something and seen this.
Art is very open for interpretation. Even though most interpretations are wrong. LoL 🤣
Great, and interesting Video. Later My Friend. 👍😁👍.
All interpretations are at least potentially wrong, haha. But not all can possibly be correct 😅
@@attention5638 Exactly.
Wait What...LoL.
J/K.
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I feel like some of this is out of my intellectual wheelhouse-aka-way over my head! lol. I love hearing your views and thoughts and interpretations in these discussions on these books and themes. Love hearing your brain workings and how you think! Although I can't fully grasp all of these concepts and your in-depth analysis of each respectively, I am in constant awe! I enjoy each of your videos and learn what I can! lol. From one old lady to this new generation I applaud your articulation, intellect, and understanding of the literary world! great content as always!
Awe, thank you so much, that really means a lot. I have been studying this for quite some time, and still do not fully grasp so much of it. It is not easy stuff, that is for sure.😊
Christy! I know her! I know her!
Hahaha! Everyone knows Christy!!
I came here first. Let's enjoy Camus. 😉😄😃
Hahah thank you! He is a lot of fun to discuss, for sure!😎
His philosophy of existentialism is good. Worth listening to
no talk of philosophy of yeet is ok i still yeet
HAHAHA, the philosophy of yeet is one that is very complicated to explain in such a short amount of time 😅
I am very much enjoying your L'Étranger series but alas have no clever comments to build your next comments video 😉
Thank you so much, Ros! I am just glad people are enjoying these 😊😊
Add the time stamp 0.00 .
The whole time stamp will be automated..on the timeline
Oohh! I actually had no idea how people did that, I was going to look it up. Thanks for that, my friend!😊😊
@@attention5638 You made a great improvement. 👏
So often see books on here I’ve been pending to read for years....which begs the question, why the hell do I take so long to read some books. As for capital punishment, I feel it is too often to feed a mob mentality rather than doing the right or practical thing. Also, the disparity in punishment for certain crimes is a bit baffling. As for mortality, here’s to having our when plenty in the future.
Hey J.D.! Thank you for checking this out, and I definitely agree about the capital punishment. It does seem to have left behind an ethical issue. This also just reminded me, I saw that link you posted and completely forgot! I just made note of it, and will check it out in the morning! Thank you!😊😎
@@attention5638 Hey, always happy to catchup on cool content with substance :) Definitely leaves plenty of ethical issues behind as do many of the more complicated issues. And not sure which link you're referring to, then again, it's early so brain not 100% awake lol.
Hey friend!
Hey now!😊😊