The Stranger
Author: Albert Camus
Meursault is a French‑Algerian man who does not follow society’s emotional rules. He shows no grief at his mother’s funeral and feels indifferent towards love, marriage and career success.
During a beach clash, dazzled by harsh sunlight, he shoots and kills an Arab man. At his trial, the court focuses not on the crime itself, but on his cold, unfeeling personality. Because he refuses to pretend conventional sorrow, he is found guilty and sentenced to death.
Facing execution, Meursault accepts life’s absurdity — the universe has no built‑in meaning, and society punishes people who reject its social performances. This is a key work of absurdist fiction.
《局外人》
作者:阿爾貝·卡繆
小說主角叫默爾索,是生活在阿爾及利亞的普通法國人。他母親去世,參加葬禮的時候,他沒有哭,也沒有表現出人們預期的悲傷。
對生活裡的一切,他都看得很淡。女朋友問他愛不愛自己、要不要結婚,他覺得無所謂;老闆想要提拔他,他也不覺得這是多麼好的機會。他只忠實於自己真實的感受,不願意裝出社會要求的情緒。
一次海邊發生衝突,在強烈陽光的刺激下,默爾索開槍打死了一個阿拉伯人,隨後被逮捕審判。
可是法庭並沒有重點查這樁兇案本身,反而一直在審判他這個人的性格。就因為母親葬禮上他沒有流淚,大家就認定他本性邪惡、沒有人性,最後判了他死刑。
臨刑之前,默爾索想明白了世界的荒謬。他接受了生命本來就沒有所謂預設意義這件事,不再期盼安慰,坦然面對命運。
這是荒謬文學的經典:這個世界本身沒有固定意義,但社會會強迫人表演出該有的悲傷、該有的歡喜。一個人只說真話、順從自己內心,反而會被社會當成異類甚至罪人。這本書並不是認同殺人行為,而是批判世俗用情緒道德去定義一個人,而不看客觀事實。
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