The stranger

Author's name: Albert Camus

Today, my mother died. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know. The most famous and absurd opening sentence of all the openings of world classics. Camus writes in a mad way, about that stranger who tells his story from his mother's death until he arrives in prison. The strangeness here is not limited to him, but he is a stranger to himself and the world in it, so that the reader feels that this strangeness provokes him and fuels within him questions and conflict. He reshapes his concepts about the ordinary and the strange in this world. He did not cry when his mother died, and he did not regret when he committed a murder, risking the death penalty, and being held accountable for being an inconsistent part of the society around him. As Camus himself said about his hero: "He is already condemned because he does not play the game