I came across this website on info about Albert himself and also goes over parts of the book. I think it will be useful to get more of a background on the book as well as refresh my thoughts on what happened within the book to help generate the ideas I want.
Some relevant or interesting facts on Camus:
- He was actually born in French colonial Algeria, so has drew very much from personal knowledge for the outsider.
- His family was very poor and its said that the poverty and illness greatly affected his writing.
- As he grew up he started to believe that life had no meaning and "life has no rational redeeming feature". He started believe it to be absurd.
- The outsider was his first big novel which he expressed these views of the absurd in.
- It is felt important that you keep this idea of the absurdity of life in mind while reading the story
"In our society any man who doesn't cry at his mothers funeral is liable to be condemned to death."
Her illustrates the piont he wanted to convey about his social views and I feel it would be very important to illustrate this myself though the drawings to aid this piont he has.
In this he also talks about the main protagonist as not playing the game, as he doesn't lie. Perhaps trying to illustrate this would be a good way forward but I'm concerned about trying to illustrate something that isn't happening. How to draw attention to something that is not happening may be to hard.
I'm interested in the line he says "...in love with the sun that leaves no shadow". I'm not sure what this means but finding out might be useful as it is of interest to me.
Finishing off he says that the Meursault agrees to die for the truth. I feel this is probably the best line to descibe how Camus feels about his book.
Being truthful to what he intended for the book I feel is key to this project, as well as getting my own work and style into my work.
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