One of those neighbors, Raymond, enlists Meursault's help in getting revenge on his girlfriend, an Arab woman, who he thinks was cheating on him. She becomes his girlfriend and the two happily spend time together as Meursault goes about his daily life, working in a nondescript office.Īs the days go by, Meursault begins observing his neighbors. While he is reprimanded for not showing any grief, he doesn't really see the problem and soon asks out a nice girl he meets at the beach, who is a former co-worker. He visits her nursing home, muses on the life she led there, then attends her funeral, most of which he finds quite boring. The book opens with the news of his mother's death. Meursault ( we never get his first name), a man who lives in French-colonized Algeria sometime between the two World Wars. The narrator is an emotionally detached young man, one M. The first novel of Albert Camus, published in 1942-which subsequently launched his writing career. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know." note Aujourd'hui, maman est morte.
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