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”All these formal and esthetic elements of the novel have been studied by scholars and taught to the generations of students who have read The Stranger for school since the 1950s-often as their first intense literary experience in an AP English course”
I did in fact read this book in AP Lit, and the proceeded to let it entirely alter my personality and beliefs ever since.
The page before (literally page 1 of the entire book) she writes, “My experience teaching The Stranger, and giving talks about the novel, is that everyone in the room has read it-usually twice.”
Yes, I have read it twice. I actually bought this book to help me write and essay called ”Camus and Me” where I talk about my life in relation to where I was when I read each piece of Camus that I have read thus far, beginning with my first reading of The Stranger, and ending with my second reading of The Stranger.
Alice Kaplan, I am asking you kindly to get out of my head. (:
Feb 20, 2025
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I read this book in high school and I would certainly classify this one as weird. The whole book kinda just had me questioning everything and has an Oedipus Rex thing going on. I didn’t think I would like it initially, but once I finished the book it was funny to look back on. Very strange though! 😭
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