/lit/ - Literature

Please explain me the apeal of this book I've read it for the second time and I don't understand what is great in it .

How well-versed in philosophy should I be before I start The Stranger by Albert Camus? I was recommended it from here but I don't know if it will be philosophically above my head, seeing as I only know some about existentialism and the wikipedia entry says:

>its content explores various philosophical schools of thought, including (most prominently and specifically) absurdism, as well as determinism, nihilism, naturalism, and stoicism.

Do I have to know a ton about these schools of thought or does it not matter?

can someone explain to me the last chapter of The Stranger? I had a tough time on understanding it.

Why do people love this book?

I am having a difficult time understanding what existentialism represents. If it represents the notion that humans merely exist but nothing really matters, then Mersault is definitely an existentialist.

s existentialism then merely having low blood sugar?
What is the difference between this man and a common animal such as a dog?
Nothing really matters to the dog except physical sustenance.
How can there be an entire literary movement based on something so inconsequential?
And if nothing really matters, then why does Camus spend energy writing a novel about an idea that doesn't really matter?

I apologize for the sour tone, but this philosophy seems to go against everything I think normal people believe in. It opposses the foundations of human life.

i think the stranger is a pretty cool guy. eh, didn't cry at funeral but doesn't afraid of anything

What does /lit/ think?

Writer's block. Need some good books to read because apparently you write better when you read as well.

Haven't read a book in a long while and this writer's block is killing me. Something similar to The Stranger, No Longer Human (or basically any book that writes out like Japanese literature. I like the bleak yet flowery style of writing). These are books that I last read, off the top of the head.

Thanks.

The Stranger by Camus.

Sartre was a phony who believed in communism (responsible for so many atrocities in the 20th century).