THE STRANGER BY ALBERT CAMUS // ANIMATED BOOK SUMMARY
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The Stranger is a short novel about a man who could not care less when his mother dies. However, he does go to her funeral. After the funeral he begins a romantic relationship with an old coworker, named Marie. He shoots a man, goes to jail, and is put on trial primarily for his lack of emotional remorse after his mother's death.
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★ Table of Contents ★
Chapter 01 Part 1 | 0:00
Chapter 02 Part 1 | 0:48
Chapter 03 Part 1 | 1:15
Chapter 04 Part 1 | 1:58
Chapter 05 Part 1 | 2:34
Chapter 06 Part 1 | 3:26
Chapter 01 Part 2 | 4:20
Chapter 02 Part 2 | 4:38
Chapter 03 Part 2 | 5:20
Chapter 04 Part 2 | 5:53
Chapter 05 Part 2 | 6:30
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He doesn't say that he doesn't love her. He says it doesn't matter, but he doesn't think so. There's a big difference
When she asks him again in chapter V he states that "cela ne signifiait rien mais que sans doute je ne l'amait pas", answering "as he had already done it once". It is still supposed to "mean nothing", but here he says that "without a doubt [he] didn't love her".
they botched it
Exactly, Hank! This story is full of crap in so many areas. Some slopeheaded judge calls Mersault a monster and he is nothing of the sort.
this video only represented the plot of the book, but missed the nuances of it which makes it great
a book always makes the difference.
One of my favorite books. Mersault is so frustrating yet so relatable. Society condemns him because they can't understand how anyone can live life without meaning. But why does life have to have meaning to be valued. He just lives.. and that terrifies people
Also, he mentions a couple of times that he is happy and that he likes his life. For other people this might be impossible, because they think they need meaning and ambition. He just doesn't care, as you've said he just lives.
In existentialism your choices give your life meaning, you’re essentially your god.
It’s really interesting how much meaninglessness threatens society. Camus emphasized the desperation of individuals to create an explanation for everything when Mersault embraces living under the authority of his own desires and that is fascinating!
He mentions he’s happy and goes off being bitter most of the time. Unless he’s experiencing love or with someone who is actually happy like his girlfriend. It’s like the truth just flies by over your heads so you feel better about your own views lol
Madison Monahan nailed it
Mersault is undoubtedly the most emblematic antihero in literature of all time!
They condemn him not so much for his actions but because he doesn't believe and doesn't follow
what most people consider right and acceptable.
Social standards and norms never recognize the peculiarities and diversities of some people which means
that they're condemened to live forever as "strangers".
fucc lyfe
The Immoralist - Andre Gide
He literally killed a guy and consented to a woman getting beat. You can't really blame "society" for this one.
@@PakiPicasso he just doesn't give anything meaning he just does it ..i think its a cheating a bit you know you have high chance of getting yourself in trouble if u do this things its not fully absurd it's like you ask for it.dont I thing but by even asking I know what authors trying to say
@@PakiPicasso The authorities didn't *care* what he did. They were completely uninterested in punishing him for the murder of someone who was, at the time, a second or third class colonial subject. The only reason they chose to execute him was that he wasn't Christian and didn't care about his mother's death.
The whole purpose of the book is that he is viewed as a complete alien in society, but it is revealed later that he is happy that way and he would re live it if he could. He finds meaning in the hatred and misunderstanding that people put towards him but in the end he has meaning. He wants them to yell hate at his funeral because ironically it is what gave him purpose in the rest of his life and it is the reason he is happy. Ironically people yelling hate at him shows that while he has lived a short life he is happy, they are going to live long and unhappy lives.
wow your comment made me understand a lot of things. I'm going to have test tomorrow so thanks a lot!
I don't understand this bit: Mersault is a murderer, yes they may exaggerate on him being the antichrist because he reacted unconventionally in his mother's funeral, but at the bottom line he doesn't deserve any sympathy because he murdered a person in cold blood.
Exactly - but the book suggested that Mersault was convicted because of his unusual responses, and not simply because he was a cold blooded killer. Maybe he would have gotten away with murder if he simply put on a show of remorse?
@@thebooktutor I think I understand, the murder is a means to show how narrative driven society is.
@@kharathos4121 I wouldnt say it was cold blooded because you could argue it was in self defense. Considering the man he shot fought with him earlier and also was known to be a threat prior.
tbh from the first pages of the book i just thought mersault was only so used to repressing his emotions because something traumatic happened to him. but without being introduced to his emotions as a child, and having no knowledge of how he was before he became so distant and contented, i just realized he has the same traits as a psychopath without the manipulation bits. moreover, however strange it was for me to read, i find myself quite comfortable after the first half of the book. it made society looked stupid, forcing their beliefs and believing into such norms, upholding it without even giving a second thought. trying to understand someone who doesn't even care about them, hating him because of it. it's too ironic and actually fun. i loved i how it ended.
Meursault's way of thinking, living and overall processing everything is so akin to either autism or ASPD, and if it was one of those two things, it's a very nuanced and not stigmatised approach to the condition, which i really liked in the book! Not a lot of books written during that time are made in such a way L'Etranger is, and that's what makes it special imo.
It's not that "he can't prove that god exists" it's "i don't care that god exists and I wouldn't waste my time on that matter:
God doesn’t exist to him, is exactly why he is the way he is. In Christ’s own words, I am the father, and the father is in me. Is quite simply saying your God, is your own set of morals and ideals. Anyone with an ideal of God in your respective religions would cross the same paths. That is why the golden rule, establishes itself as an ideal by which you lead your life, and meshes nicely that you should then treat your fellow man the same. Mersault has no God, therefore his life is just as uncaring as evidence in his treatment as those around him. It’s important for us to realize this, as there are clearly a large portion of our population lacking any ideal virtues. If you know your lacking a specific spiritual fruit, at least your aware of it and work to attain it, like love, charity, forgiveness, kindness, tolerance, patience, fortitude, bravery, oratory skills, desire for knowledge and wisdom, meditation and thoughtfulness, respectfulness…you get the idea? These are the fruits of the spirit and I challenge anyone to say these are not Godly ideals to attain!
Yeah, he literally said that kind of line in the end.
I think that the reason why he didn't understand the nature of relationships or the consequences of his actions was because he lived for the pure sensationalism of a moment. That's why he stayed with Marie - he recognised he felt "good" around her- and also why he formed a friendship with Raymond - because he didn't feel "bad". In a way, I don't think he's an outsider, in fact I see his way of living quite clever! It points out the absurdity of life- why should we act so courteous to people we've only met once? Why do we have to express a certain emotion if we are not feeling it in the moment? The idea that he lived in the moment, not thinking of the consequences or the weight of his actions, but purely on instinctive sensations he feels ties in with his connection with the secular world (nature). Idk whether that accounts for anything tho BC this is just my perspective
Interestingly, Camus wrote an essay called the Myth of Sisyphus which I haven't read yet but I feel is a vital link to understanding this story.
True, I have read the essay then read the novel for the second time...it gives me a clearer view.
Yh both books by Camus have been used as assignments for me but reading them you get a clearer picture on the thoughts of Camus on absurdity
i know a clinical psychopath who told me that this was one of his favorite books and I read it but I never understood the appeal... but now i think he must have been identifying with the main character. He really ADMIRED him for the lack of giving a fuck.
I really enjoyed this book, and watching this enhanced my appreciation for it, thank you! Such great content and amazing quality(:
you deserve so many more subs, you're helping me graduate lmao
+Toran Obrien Happy to help ;)
So did you graduate?
How was graduation?
Me 2
Fatima Falouz definitely helpin me graduate in june lol
This was a hell of a book. If you dig into the core concepts of it that is. The ending..with respect to the video,gives you another really great idea/thought regarding death and life.
At first I was literally confused about Merosault but slowly slowly I understood that he was a very calm, straightforward man and also a man of words .The way he didn't kept Marie in the dark and about his mother's death I guess he was familiar with the process of life and yes he felt her absence but he also accepted the fact that she's no more and that acceptance made him show no remorse and it sounds really really shocking that he didn't shed a drop of tear for her mother which shows that he was a sociopath. And in the end, I got struck their for a moment ,I had to re-read that part again then i understood after the encounter with that "priest" who was trying to force religion on him ,the last statement tht everyone should show hate for him during his funeral, would be a slap on their own cheeks kinda self-beating thing
This must have been a strange character story back then, now this is how everyone is.
Thankyou so much sir for such great explanation 😄
The story that told here is so unimportant about this book. The book is great because it makes you feel that emptiness by it's expression.
Excellent video, thanks.
This was really good! Thanks for sharing :)
You are great sir, thank you Sir.
You put a nihilist spin on this book, but I thought that it was more of an existentialist theme?
Haha, absurdism is something between those two ;)
Look it up
Julie Song It’s absurdist. Close to both, but distinct
Albert Camus hated the term existentialist. The guys above are being pretentious absurdism is existentialism he’s just like any other philosopher he wants to think he’s different and unique. To a degree he was Camus is by far my favorite philosopher but he just contributed to the conversation of existentialism.
Absurdism really is a composition of both. Many existentialists will claim he was an existentialist, while many nihilists will argue that his philosophy merely dances around nihilism. Camus has inspired both existentialists, and nihilists. Camus spent his entire life denying life had any meaning at all and that merely the joy and beauty we experience is what makes life worth living. Later on in his life at some point changed his stance and proclaimed the meaning of life was the meaning you make of it, however he was quick to point out "it must embrace the absurd", our desire for inherent meaning bleeds into our pursuit of meaning construction. Camus would warn us that we must maintain an ironic distance between absurdity and this meaning lest the meaning construct takes place of the absurd. The idea of joy in another place and another time distracts us from the joy we can experience here and now. It is how abstracts distract us from reality itself. Camus would say "Absurdity is just lucid reason noting it's limits", and therefore the limits of everything we can reasonable do, including the choices we make, the justice we create, the happiness we can attain, etc, and none of it perfectly matched any idea rendering all ideals "worthless" in a sense. Nothing can escape absurdity cause all things are absurd in relation to us. To embrace absurdity is to understand what it means to be "only human". There will always be a reason to despair until we can decide otherwise, to create meaning is to push a boulder up a hill over and over indefinitely. We derive fulfillment from the struggle and the joy together. In my opinion he leaned more towards the nihilist aspects of his philosophy near the end of his life. Ironically it was like he made accepting absurdity to be the meaning of life, which is just another way of eluding absurdity, as the human condition was not meant to be willed soo freely.
To me Meursault is something of an anti-hero. Camus claimed to derive his passion from absurdity in that because he will one day die, every moment can't go unlived. The stranger lives completely detached from everything, dispassionately.
5:08 I think the word "accidentally" wouldn't work as they killed him intentionally, the only accident was that they didn't know it was their son/brother. Son or not, they did a horrible deed. They way it was explained it seemed as they did it unintentionally with remorse.
Whole meaning of the novel is changed here
Thanks for summarizing the book! I have tried reading it but I couldn’t get through to it coz it doesn’t engage me at all!
The feel good movie of the summer.
Thanks man I have an exam tomorrow about the outsider❇☑
That's cheerful.✌
You saved my life :D
Good book summary :)
Excellent video, keep on going😊
+Markus Nygård Thank you for the feedback. It's really motivating to hear the video helped you out! I'll keep improving!
Lmao mersault just doesnt give a fuck. love the book!
I was thinking of smoking at my mothers funeral and not talking to anyone or not show up at all. Do I deserve the guillotine?
You should watch "A monster calls".
since I was a kid I have always felt like Meursault, but had no explainations of my surroundings other than physics, math, etc...
I just feel bad for those that accept religion or anythign similar to religion just to live in a fake bubble, knowingly lying to themselves and acting like its all good and normal and continue on living their lives with different type of masks. Sometimes I envy those people how calm they are living, but I cant live with with myself knowingly lying and fooling myself. Meursault, looked calm and careless, but let me tell you from my own experience. There is a noise inside none stop noise and war and chatter. He gets detached from the physical reality for a reason because he is constantly in his head. I sometimes, try to meditate and focus on my breathing in bed to be able to sleep and stop that constant chatter. It's a curse, but also I try to make my own meaning to get attached to a reality that I enjoy being in, but also in this reality its hard to find people that you can live with stressless and just trust them with your everything. I sometimes think that we are very similar to ants colonies. Tribalism is built-in us.
This book is so damn good, it’s short too, highly recommend to read it and not just watch this video
I basically just use an audio book to help me read this book for me, but I ended up getting lost around chapter 3, but thanks for this video I can finally finish my assignment
W thats legit what Im doing
Mersault, while at the prisoner's dock, heard people say all sorts of "interesting" things about him. He offered that, "[T]here is often a lot said about me, maybe more about importunate shortcomings than about my wholesome nature." (pg 98). And quite predictably, he has fans and haters here too. And so, none then nor now, will ever know who Mersault really was.
Does anyone know what applications these videos were made with? If so, can you please explain?
Book summary for educational purposes, it aint that deep
The Summary is useful but you haven't mentioned many things that is need to be mentioned
The anti hero is happy with his life and that makes him stranger to the society.
What’s the song in the background?
one of the best books I have ever read
This is going to help me pass my quiz tomorrow thanks
Jacob Ellis I remember sparknoting this book back in highschool. Just read it this past weekend. Highly recommend you to give it a read, as well as this UA-cam video is does not give Camus justice.
awesome!
I like this book a lot it is very interesting for me.
I thought the main character was a bit of a psychopath, apart from that, I liked how the author writes, but found the ending unfulfilling
Same!
Honestly he is psychopath
He doesnt have remorse regret and no moral code
Everything bores him and saw no point in living
@@heposlis2409 It seems like you didn't really understood his view of life, he doesn't have remorse regret because it is pointless to regret anything as it will change nothing. Talking about moral code, I don't think you could even say that, his morality is unique, based on his experiences and knowledge and that doesn't mean it's a bad thing. Also, definitely not everything makes him bored, take for example swimming, he enjoys it, same with other physical sensations, what makes him bored are things that he thinks of as pointless and have no value for him, for example the whole process of court at the beggining when he clearly has no interest in as he knows well that he is guilty, same with already mentioned regret, it is simply pointless.
A few details are off and it makes a big difference.
5:08 that's a reference to the play "The Misunderstanding"
also by Camus!
very nice
I am only here because of The Cure, I just wanted to know why he killed an Arab. He didnt shot him 4 times because of the sun though lol.
i did some research and the character is based off of someone who has asperger’s syndrome, which makes the novel have such a clearer meaning
@@keeks9751 thanks for the input
I feel sorry for Mersault, just finished the book.
I remember reading this book, but don't remember anything.
Like the book, didn't like work school had me do on it
I have to present an entire project on this book & haven’t read it so thank you
Why do we cry when someone dies?
One of the greatest novel ever written.
I thought Ramon was a Warehouse Guard?
Super dumb late with this comment/question-just forgot to ask, but uh is anyone else here after hearing about this book on Power:Book 2??
Hello sir please read THE FALL BY ALBERT CAMUS. Translated by ROBIN BUSS
I’m here because of the show Power
Guilty as well 😂
Good I enjoy
Please do more
who is here after Pewds book review?
Hurt myself laughing. Thank you!
I don’t completely agree with how this is summarized
I think Meursault is beautiful and an amazing human being.
It is just my opinion hate it or love it, I don't really care. :)
ΝΟΤ ΒΕ CHEATED . This is the meaning of life .
Peter Monicid life has no meaning. That is natures mercy. That’s the beauty of it. We’re all walking to the guillotine.
Mersault is the OG sigma male
Too true to life
why the robot women was at court?
finished this and it’s okay i thought it’d leave a bigger impression on me but oh well
Hi, I'm Faith the novel as a novel is ok. It’s the philosophy he’s portraying through the novel that can be impactful. Especially the end monologue truly depicts Camus idea of “Absurdism” this universe is as indifferent to the character as the character is to it.
The thing that got to me about it was the way it ended. I was expecting the universe to shift in some way, or some perspective changes, even though I knew the philosophy behind it. It’s not a criticism of a religious society, nor of a man of apathy, but rather a confrontation of the absurdity of both. It affected me because I related so much to mersault (I was 15 when I read it, sue me) but hadn’t fully realized how detrimental that apathy was, even though the imposing of meaning was equally bad.
Jonah Page oh yeah it’s considered a coming of age book in Europe a lot of teenagers over there read it like Americans do catcher in the rye. I think they’re very similar as per impact on youth. The stranger is much smarter in my opinion but I hold some of those ideals. Camus is my favorite philosopher so I’m bias.
I read it when i was 17 and it had a massive impact on me. As far as stories go, I think that Camus' "The Plague" is a better overall story. If you want something shorter, his book "The Fall" is great as well.
Great review video! What a horribly depressing book though; I hated every minute of it.
2024?
I personally think that the whole idea of this book is as meaningless as the main character thinks everything is meaningless.
You saved my white ass from failing the exam, thank you man!
FR FR
If you are not like us, you are against us.
If you are not like us, you do not understand us.
And that scares us, so you have to be dealt with.
“you’re a loser and can’t even see it”
you didnt read the book did you :(
Such an odd Story.
Wow this was terrible
This is disquieting book to read.
Rule #3 please don't call me Stranger no talking nobody
*swim in the sea, not ocean
John Frusciante brought me here
Seems like the whole story is about non-conformity to religion in particular and by extension to a society influenced by religion.
This isn't animation.
but the story look so shitty, the stranger could be a cold human being, but that do not justify to condemn him guilty because he doesnt follow the society like everybody else.
it's supposed to be absurd
Do you think that his failure to justify the shooting had something to do with his condemnation?
So killing someone for no reason, helping a pimp beat up his girlfriend is justified because he just doesnt follow society? This was quite a crique and influence on the nature of crime and to what degree of severity a person should be punished based whether or not they felt remorse for committing a crime. The basic premise is, those who feel no remorse are likely to do it again and are a threat to society. But we have turned it into other excuses like mental illness or just being a non conformist....
@@NyaNyaJP In the future, if humanity survives long enough, the idea of punishing people for their actions will seem as absurd and barbaric to society as slavery is to us now. In my opinion, Camus was of this mind and was at least in part expressing the absurdity and barbarism of the idea of punishment in general, but especially so in regards to what other people think and believe, and the reasons behind their actions.
Meursault indifference vexed me😡
where the hell is this story going?
yall got it so wrong
Hated this book, so detached and pretending that it’s smart. Life is beautiful and meaning can be found anywhere you look for it.
This book talks about someone who can't?
here because of pewdiepie
psychopath
Hands up if GTA bought you here..
well
Is just bs .. I thought I could relate to him but turned out to be bs..wasted my time on this novel
holy shit this is so borning the book is so boring like damn
Sociopath Manual.
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So he shot the man to avoid the nagging wife. Smart.
This is so awful
Jeez .. so terrible story. Totally absurd.
The story is very good, and its from the absurd period, so its normal its absurd..
Im Algerian so i read it in french, maybe the story is better in the original language than in english
This book stinks
I hate this book ...
same