A Clean Well Lit Place and The Stranger

Introduction

The paper attempts to compare “A Clean Well Lit Place” and “The Stranger” in a holistic context. It focuses on the thematic as sell as protagonist aspects of the two piece of literature. Both these literature are considered very attractive due to the fact that they demonstrate an excellent example of English language. This paper is aimed at providing a good comparison between the two literatures including the thematic aspect of the literatures and also encompassing the protagonist aspects.

Discussion

Perhaps aware of the Hemingway short story entitled A clean and well lit. I summarize his argument in a nutshell. A couple of waiters waiting for a deaf old man finished his last drink at the cafe to take the blind and end their work day in the morning (Gerhard, pp 41 - 49; Da Costa, pp 12 - 19). One of the waiters is desperate for the elderly as it slowly hurries to go home, with his wife. The second waiter, larger than the first but still young, no hurry, the old man takes pity and understands his lack of hustle.

The Stranger (1942) by Albert Camus (1913-1960), winner of the Nobel Prize in 1957, is an original work of modern culture. It's not really a tradition of moral philosophers of the eighteenth century, as would Jean-Paul Sartre in his essay critical of his rival in 1943. The modernity of the Camus is common to philosophers of existentialism (Shmoop, pp 75 - 83; Da Costa, pp 12 - 19). There is a congenital pessimism at the bottom of the soul of the protagonist Meursault, an 'existential angst: his subtle sense of the fatal death connected to his love of life, which eventually explodes against the priest who invited him to redeem himself, on the eve of its execution, an explosion of anger and joy (Gerhard, pp 41 - 49). Camus's novel, as defined by the same author in his Important is the lesson of the absurd by Luigi Pirandello (Da Costa, pp 12 - 19).

The title “The Stranger” indicates the alienation of the protagonist, and reminds us of the verses of Ungaretti: "My punishment / when you / I do not believe / in harmony." Meursault has this torture hidden inside that explodes in the end as we anticipated. Up to that point (apart from the physical discomfort almost exclusively during the funeral of the mother) ...