He feels that "people never change their lives, that in any case one life was as good as another." (p. Meursault has developed a strong indifference to life. I found a few parts of the book humorous, though also disturbing such that I felt uncomfortable laughing. It's a fairly short book at 144 pages and reads quickly. But he comes to some profound insights and by the end finds some things worth living for. Meursault seems indifferent to all this and to life in general. There's old Salamano who beats his dog and swears at it.
It's about a fairly despicable first-person protagonist, Meursault, and several other despicable characters in French Algeria in the early 1940's when the book was written. For our discussion on Wednesday, June 14, 2017, the Classics Book Club selected The Stranger by Albert Camus.
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