![]() ![]() So now I had this voice speaking to me, a maladjusted French-Algerian who has difficulty mourning his mother, an impartial observer of his neighbors, who beat both dogs and women. When questioned by the judge about his motives, he explains that he fired those five shots (five!) "because of the sun."Īaron Gwyn is also the author of The World Beneath. ![]() A week later, he shoots a man to death (he doesn't own up to pulling the trigger, exactly: the way Meursault tells it, "the trigger gave"). The day after the funeral, he goes swimming, starts a meaningless affair, then strolls off to the movies to see a comedy. His mother has just died, though he never bothers to inquire precisely when. It was the voice I connected with first, antihero Meursault's poker-faced assessment of a world that makes as little sense to him as mine did to me. He had a Kurdish bodyguard named Abdul who once killed a man with a knife.Īt the age of 14, I stumbled across The Stranger, Albert Camus' famous novel of absurdity and detachment. My father was killed when I was just an infant (pickup, train tracks), and my grandfather was an oil pipeline worker in the Middle East. I grew up on a mortgaged cattle ranch with a grandmother, who spoke in tongues, and a mother addicted to prescription pills: Percodan, Valium, Vicodin, you name it. ![]() Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Stranger Author Albert Camus and Matthew Ward ![]()
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