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The Stranger Re-read/review

I finished reading the Stranger A few days ago, on the 19th, and I have some things to say about it. I am biased, I love the stranger, it was what really got me into more philisophical and richer literature. It's not a perfect book by any means but I felt the need to reread it while taking notes to try to unpack it more. Camus and Kafka are pretty similiar in the way that they both are full of different ways to argue a meaning behind it. But i'll get on to the actual review and stuff now.

"I’m biased, I had already decided The Stranger as one of my favorite books when I first read it, but Stranger is so fascinating to read. I think this is more of a problem for me, but I love trying to decipher what everything “means”, like what the theme is and why he wrote that. I think that’s a fault with me because I don’t think I could ever truly understand what Camus was really “meaning”, I think I’m too young to truly understand his whole philosophy, is it even possible to understand someone’s entire philosophy? I don’t know, I’m just 16! On the subject of the actual book, I really like the tone it uses. It detaches Meursault from the world around him, to making him feel human, to stripping that away, to making him have a conversation with the reader. I will go more into it later but yeah it’s a very good book. I really liked it and I don’t think I will ever fully comprehend it."

Sorry it's a lot more rambly and personal then I would have liked but hey, no one is reading these anyways.

Final Rating: 9/10 - the weird racist undertone of the arabs could have been taken out but It makes sense, he is french in the 1920’s. But overall the book seems to acheive what he was going for.