Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #27219 in Books
• Published on: 1991-03
• Original language: French
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 185 pages

Customer Reviews

The Outsider is a good book
Meursault is my umost hero because he operates entirely according to hisown considerations. Most discussions of the book on the internet areawful. Meursault is not indifferent to the conventions of his society,and he has certainly made no choice to reject them. He is an impossiblecharacter, the perfect existential consciousness if you like. Theopinions, standards or ideas of anyone but himself are irrelevant to him. He has not reached this position through any thought process: he simplyhappens to be the epitome of philosophical egoism, individualism, moralrelativism. He cannot in fact be a creation in real human society. It ismeaningless to approve or disapprove of him because he is firstlyimpossible in reality, and secondly has not made himself the way he is. He is heroic because he is utterly himself, an unattainable transcendentperfection for anybody who wants to live by their own personal judgements. Analysis of the role of the sun is also poor: the ascent and power of thesun destroy the shadows which everything 'other' casts on Meursault, thatis the impositions of the world on his individualism. When Meursaultshoots, he is overcome only by the dazzling absurdity and meaninglessnessof existence and consciousness, which can be seen if all outsideimpositions are wiped out. PS read Crime And Punishment to seeRaskolnikoff try to reach Meursault-esque individualist morality: and whathappens to someone who does this.

El mejor libro que he leido
Me llamó mucho la atención la psicología del protagonista de la obra, ya que todo le es indiferente desde la muerte de su madre, el casarse, matar a alguien, estar preso o su propia muerte, pero más que eso me llamó la atención su sinceridad, ya que nunca sintió la necesidad de mentir a pesar de que tuvo muchos momentos en los cuales mentir le hubiese ayudado a quedar bien con otra gente o incluso a salvarse de la muerte. Momento máximo del absurdo dentro de la obra: cuando se le pregunta porque cometió el homicidio y el responde "a causa del sol". Sin duda alguna, un libro que te enseña mucho, te muestra la visión de una sociedad, y además de ser graciosa.

Brilliant!
Book arrived 3 days late but was well worth the wait. Is an amazing book, highly reccomend!