Author: Albert Camus

Publication Date: June 1947

2026-08-24 2 min read Sincheenz

The book brought back a lot of memories of 2019–2020, when we lived through the Covid lockdowns. The anxiety, the frustration, the fear of not knowing when it would all come to an end, how feelings intensified, and how uncertainty brought us all closer. We can’t say everyone suffered the same, and yet it felt like we were all in the same boat, irrespective of our financial status or religion. Everyone had to face the uncertainty. Some had it harder than others, losing loved ones, losing jobs, or worse.

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The Stranger

Author: Albert Camus Publication Date: May 1942

2026-03-07 2 min read Sincheenz

The author makes you feel as if you are actually present in the story. The plot itself is very simple, and the language is straightforward, yet the small details make it feel like you are standing right there in the scene. If a translation of a work can make you feel like you are living inside the book, it makes you wonder how well written the original must be. Albert Camus is truly skilled to pull that off. The book mirrors the absurdity of society and the expectations and norms that have evolved over time. Meursault, the protagonist, is simply living his life one day at a time, until he commits a crime that changes everything. But it raises a question: was he even fully in control of what he did, or was it the result of the circumstances around him, the situation he was in, and everything that led up to that moment? In the end the real absurdity lies in how society becomes convinced that he is a bad person not because of what he did, but because of what he didn’t do.

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