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I wonder at what point literature classes will not read Camus' "L'Etranger" as an exploration of existentialism, but as a cautionary tale of white-male privilege.
Or... has this already happened? It's been a hot minute since I was in school.
@Latkes Oh! I read about this book yesterday right before I posted!
The Stranger is a mildly interesting existential journey if you take it out of gender, race, political context. But it may end up being way more fascinating in hindsight with those contexts in mind.
@shuntley I never read The Stranger but I was intrigued by this response:
https://www.npr.org/2015/06/23/416828000/algerian-writer-kamel-daoud-stands-camus-the-stranger-on-its-head
I was kind of hung up on feeling like I should read The Stranger first, and I don't especially want to read that.