The Stranger

“The Stranger” made a whole lot more sense after reading “The Myth of Sisyphus.” For me, “the absurd” articulates something very important from which most (all?) works of art stem - an attempt to find or impose human meaning and order in a world that rejects both. In the end, Meursault finds comfort by submitting to the absurd. But the extent to which this can be extrapolated as prescriptive is flushed out a bit more in the essay. Thus, these works should really be read together.