Editing The Stranger (Camus novel) (section)

==Critical analysis==
In his 1956 analysis of the novel, Carl Viggiani wrote:

{{blockquote|On the surface, ''L'Étranger'' gives the appearance of being an extremely simple though carefully planned and written book. In reality, it is a dense and rich creation, full of undiscovered meanings and formal qualities. It would take a book at least the length of the novel to make a complete analysis of meaning and form and the correspondences of meaning and form, in ''L'Étranger''.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=460515 | last=Viggiani | first=Carl A. | title=Camus' ''L'Etranger'' | journal=PMLA | volume=71 | issue=5 | pages=865–887 | date=December 1956 | doi=10.2307/460515 | s2cid=163786508 }}</ref>|sign=|source=}}

[[Victor Brombert]] has analysed ''L'Étranger'' and [[Sartre]]'s "Explication de ''L'Étranger''" in the philosophical context of the Absurd.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=2928869 | last=Brombert | first=Victor | title=Camus and the Novel of the 'Absurd' | journal=Yale French Studies | issue=1 | pages=119–123 | date=1948 | doi=10.2307/2928869 }}</ref> Louis Hudon dismissed the characterisation of ''L'Étranger'' as an existentialist novel in his 1960 analysis.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=2928902 | last=Hudon | first=Louis | title=''The Stranger'' and the Critics | journal=Yale French Studies | issue=25 | pages=59–64 | date=1960 | doi=10.2307/2928902 }}</ref> The 1963 study by Ignace Feuerlicht begins with an examination of the themes of alienation, in the sense of Meursault being a 'stranger' in his society.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=460737 | last=Feuerlicht | first=Ignace | title=Camus's ''L'Etranger'' Reconsidered | journal=PMLA | volume=78 | issue=5 | pages=606–621 | date=December 1963 | doi=10.2307/460737 | s2cid=163354876 }}</ref> In his 1970 analysis, [[Leo Bersani]] commented that ''L'Étranger'' is "mediocre" in its attempt to be a {{"'}}profound' novel", but describes the novel as an "impressive if flawed exercise in a kind of writing promoted by the New Novelists of the 1950s".<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=1344914 | last=Bersani | first=Leo | title=The Stranger's Secrets | journal=Novel: A Forum on Fiction | volume=3 | issue=3 | pages=212–224 | date=Spring 1970 | doi=10.2307/1344914 }}</ref> Paul P. Somers Jr. has compared Camus's ''L'Étranger'' and Sartre's ''[[Nausea (novel)|Nausea]]'', in light of Sartre's essay on Camus's novel.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=1344914 | last=Somers | first=Paul P. Jr. | title=Camus ''Si'', Sartre ''No'' | journal=The French Review | volume=42 | issue=5 | pages=693–700 | date=April 1969 }}</ref> [[Sergei Hackel]] has explored parallels between ''L'Étranger'' and [[Dostoyevsky]]'s ''[[Crime and Punishment]]''.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=1207491 | last=Hackel | first=Sergei | title=Raskolnikov through the Looking-Glass: Dostoevsky and Camus's ''L'Etranger'' | journal=Contemporary Literature | volume=9 | issue=2 | pages=189–209 | date=Spring 1968 | doi=10.2307/1207491 }}</ref>

Terry Otten has studied in detail the relationship between Meursault and his mother.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=25111069 | last=Otten | first=Terry | title="Mamam" in Camus' ''The Stranger'' | journal=College Literature | volume=2 | issue=2 | pages=105–111 | date=Spring 1975 }}</ref> Gerald Morreale examines Meursault's killing of the Arab and the question of whether Meursault's action is an act of murder.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=385377 | last=Morreale | first=Gerald | title=Meursault's Absurd Act | journal=The French Review | volume=40 | issue=4 | pages=456–462 | date=February 1967 }}</ref> Ernest Simon has examined the nature of Meursault's trial in ''L'Étranger'', with respect to earlier analysis by Richard Weisberg and jurist [[Richard A. Posner]].<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=743503 | last=Simon | first=Ernest | title=Palais de Justice and Poetic Justice in Albert Camus' ''The Stranger'' | journal=Cardozo Studies in Law and Literature | volume=3 | issue=1 | pages=111–125 | date=Spring–Summer 1991 | doi=10.2307/743503 }}</ref> [[René Girard]] has critiqued the relative nature of 'indifference' in the character of Meursault in relation to his surrounding society.<ref>{{cite journal | jstor=461137 | last=Girard | first=René | title=Camus's Stranger Retried | journal=PMLA | volume=79 | issue=5 | pages=519–533 | date=December 1964 | doi=10.2307/461137 | s2cid=163389884 }}</ref>

[[Kamel Daoud]] has written a novel ''[[The Meursault Investigation]]'' (2013/2014), first published in [[Algeria]] in 2013, and then republished in France to critical acclaim. This [[post-colonialist]] response to ''The Stranger'' counters Camus's version with elements from the perspective of the unnamed Arab victim's brother (naming him and presenting him as a real person who was mourned) and other protagonists. Daoud explores their subsequent lives following the withdrawal of French authorities and most [[pied-noir]]s from Algeria after the conclusion of the [[Algerian War of Independence]] in 1962.