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| | The Stranger, Constant Reader Discussion |
 | | He said in court papers that he read "The Stranger" nine months before killing Tay and determined that "everything was meaningless and nothing matters because we are all going to die." The book's narrator, Meursault, shows indifference to his mother's death, kills a stranger and remains unmoved by his own impending decapitation. |
 | | The general consensus is that the point of his novel THE PLAGUE published in 1947, a very good year--the year of my nascency into this interesting scene, was to glorify the perseverance and dignity of people striving, with very little success by the way, for the good of their fellow man. |
 | | In a novel whose theme is pointlessness, the central act about which everything revolves, to be effective, must be the absolute epitome of pointlessness. |
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