Not God! Yes to the absurd!

Abroad / Albert Camus (1913-1960) 1957 Nobel Prize for Literature
Published in 1942 abroad is part of the great classics of the twentieth century.
Lai I read and reread for over 50 years to discover each time a new idea of ​​labsurde, another illustration of Camus philosophical convictions including the Myth of Sisyphus and this nonsense awareness of life that led Camus to say that the man is free to live without appeal even pay the consequences of his mistakes while having exhausted the joys of this earth.
Meursault, the narrator, is a modest office worker in Algiers, a simple man who leads a poor existence in everyday grayness that oozes boredom, despair and weariness. It seems hit torpor dune, dune and dune pathological melancholy indifference Legard everything that surrounds it. It seems no illusions and lives in the gloom as if nothing navait sense.
He comes to learn the death of his mother. He will then live the constraints this event in a sort of waking dream.
He attended some friends including Raymond, a neighbor who knows some problems with a group dArabes for a history of women.
Following dune fight, Raymond was injured by one of these Arabs. Meursault, yielding to a desire that he does not understand will later kill Larabe in question as a result of a blind concatenation of circumstances in a kind dhébétude, and for no real reason.
The narration of Meursault is objective, such a report gendarmerie depressing to be suggesting the absurdity of everything.
In an impersonal style makes short sentences and of great sobriety, a bare neutral style while dry and monotonous ratings translating well labsurde situations, Camus always given first place to ideas. He refuses to use any stylistic dune magic.
Meursault is stopped. He did not realize BE a criminal and thus creates a scandal in the eyes of the prosecutor, the judge and even his lawyer. He is a stranger in this world, ignoring the conventional values ​​that give meaning to the lives of others. In the eyes of witnesses and judges, Meursault is an insensitive, inhuman, amoral.
Facing the judge asking him sil regrets his actions:
"Jai jai thoughtful and said that instead of genuine regret, jéprouvais some trouble. I've had the impression that he did not understand me. "
Faced with the gendarmes who asked laccompagnent sil has stage fright before being judged:
"I've said no. And even, in a sense, it mintéressait to see a trial. I had never had the opportunity nen in my life. "
Meursault is really foreign to what happens to him. The court scene is almost surreal, Meursault giving the impression that this is one that is judged.
Lentretien with Laumônier in the cell is a highlight of the story. Meursault sentenced to death can not believe in God if it is not sure that he exists. His logic is compelling still inadequate with the world that surrounds. Meursault refuses to bet as LEUT Pascal made for another life and prefers to devote his life to the dying moments before being executed. And he rebelled against Laumônier and certainties of another world, before returning to the peace, alone in his cell.
"As if this great anger mavait purged of evil, emptied of hope, before this night full of signs of stars and I mouvrais for the first time to the benign indifference of the world. From léprouver so like me, if fraternal finally i felt javais was happy, and I still létais "
A big, very big novel.