I first read Monsieur Camus when I was 15 Possibly a bit young for Camus’ worldview, but I copied my older brother’s choice of paperback literature unashamedly.
Jean-Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, Franz Kafka, Colin Wilson et al played a part in my understanding of the world outside a rural English public school.
Albert Camus’ conjecture that life has no order or meaning appealed to me at the time. Meursault’s senseless kiliing of the Arab man on the beach in “The Stranger” demonstrated this sense of futility. One could either shoot or not shoot, it made no difference.
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