alyssaroselewis

** spoiler alert ** This was the book I read by Camus and will probably remain one of my favorites, by him, and in fact overall books. The scenario put forth in the book would be comedic if not for the seriousness and brevity of Camus's presentation. The protagonist finds himself at his mother's deathbed, vacationing with friends and awaiting execution all in quick succesion. The book highlights the absurdity of the human world, where a man's life can be taken for no othe reason then drinking coffee at his mother's funeral. The protagonist never truly commited a crime, he fired in self-defense, but so prone are humans to find faults in others that his crime becomes something else completely. Camus deals with how a person should react to such a redicoulius scenario and the answer is that he shouldn't. When the reins of the control of your life are yanked away from you, all you can do is watch it go by. The book goes by smoothly and perfectly embodies a spirit of reckless abandon. Except it's not quite that. The narrator cares about his life and his friends and everything in it, but sometimes faced with the impossible all we can do is resign ourselves to our fate. The book seems to be an embodimient of the slogan "Shit happens", as crude as analogy as that may be.

2022-10-29 03:29