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The book sounds interesting- added to my long,long list. I think Daylight Savings Time ends on Novembe 1.
Wish I was in Australia - do not know about you Rapa but I could use the extra hour of sleep.
Carolyn... so sorry for your loss... our family seems to be celebrating more funerals than weddings these days as well. May happy memories ease your sorrow.
Regarding The Stranger, the final paragraph in the book contains one of my favorite passages in contemporary literature, but I am not sure why. It is in Meursault’s final thoughts as he gazes out of his small prison window at the universe before his execution: “It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe”
An important lesson in life is to not looked amused at one's mother's funeral. For anyone looking to read a classic or two (at least 20th century classics) here is a list from Le Monde of the greatest 100 novels of our century. Of course Le Monde does have a preponderance of French authors:
https://www.goodreads.com/list/show/11432.Le_Monde_s_100_Books_of_t...
The page mentions that the list is a compilation from a poll which accounts for the appearance of many works usually assigned in high school literature classes (In Search of Lost Time, The Great Gatsby, The Sound and the Fury, ...)
The question that was asked was "which books remain in your memory"
Interesting the four most famous French graphic novels do appear in the list, Asterix at #31 Tintin at #42 Blake and Mortimer at #79 and Gaston at #81
I wonder what would be the result of such a poll if it were conducted in the US
Maybe we could conduct this poll in our little group here
Those reading or rereading The Stranger by Camus may be interested in a newly published book called "The Meursault Investigation" giving a different perspective on that iconic work, one that has echoes in present day Algeria
http://www.npr.org/2015/06/23/416828000/algerian-writer-kamel-daoud...
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