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Title: No fun escapism here, just the sharp reality of the guillotine
Review: Short crisp sentences. Easy to read, but in total not necessarily easy to understand if you start thinking about what this story might mean. Just like in his novel "The Plague" Camus rubs the hard reality of death in your face to force the eternal, meaning-of-life question to the surface.In the hot sun under the influence of a lot of wine Meursault stumbles into killing an Arab. What was he thinking? He is a man who thinks for himself. How could he get himself into such trouble? Unlike everyone else (according to the priest) when faced with death Meursault does not submit to the comfort the priest offers, even though he admits he is afraid.More proof that Meursault was an independent thinker can be found on page 42 where he expresses his opinion about Paris: "It's dirty. Lots of pigeons and dark courtyards. Everybody's pale."
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