Camus: Catcher of the Sun
Friday, February 5th, 2010While I was on my Mormon mission in the Franco-Belgian area in the 1960s, I found somebody’s list of the 100 most important novels of western civilization. On the list were two novels by the french writer Albert Camus: The Stranger (or The Outsider) and the Plague. I purchased a copy of The Stranger and in short order read it. I found it very compelling, perhaps in the same way other young people find J. D. Salinger’s “Catcher in the Rye” haunting.
