How do you think spirituality plays into Albert Camus’ "The Stranger"?

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1. augie6_1 says:

   May 8, 2010 at 6:29 pm

   According to the absurdist, religion is constructed by man in an attempt to create meaning to a senseless existence. Acceptance of religion, of the possibility of an afterlife, would mean that man effectively escapes death. This is a destructive belief, as only the realization and acceptance of impending death allows man to live to his fullest.

   From Shmoop/The Stranger
   References :
   http://www.shmoop.com/theme/literature/albert-camus/the-stranger/religion.html

   http://www.google.com/search?q=www.shmoop.com&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
2. Cuckoo says:

   May 8, 2010 at 7:09 pm

   The Stranger, The Outsider, (L’Étranger) (1942), by Albert Camus, is one of the most famous French novels of the twentieth century and is among the best literary expositions of the absurdity of human existence in an indifferent universe. Philosophically, it is an existential novel, despite Camus not considering himself an existentialist. The Stranger is Meursault, an alienated, anomic French man who kills a native Arab man in French Algiers. At his trial for murder, the prosecution describes him as a remorseless killer; he is convicted and awaits execution. In prison, Meursault accepts his fate, because it is his only true option; neither suicide, nor faith in God are options once he fully grasps the absurdity of the world in which he lives. The story occurs in Algiers, before the Second World War, a locale from Camus’s life.

   http://www.bookrags.com/The_Stranger_%28...

   http://www.bookrags.com/notes/str/

   http://www.sparknotes.com/lit/stranger/

   http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/monk...

   http://www.gradesaver.com/ClassicNotes/T...

   http://www.pinkmonkey.com/booknotes/barr…
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