Albert Camus "The Outsider"

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"Joseph Campbell has noted that modern literature generally deals with the tragedy of life. Since the early twentieth century, writers have emphasized the idea that there is no God or future bliss to counteract the despair of existence. By contrast, the happy endings in fairy tales and myths provide "a transcendence of the universal tragedy of man." Although Campbell is correct that modern literature generally refuses to have happy endings, it nonetheless also tends to amplify the possibilities of a happy ending. In this way, it fulfills a deep psychic need in modern culture: to balance the "universal tragedy of man" with the "happy ending of the fairy tale, the myth and the divine comedy of the soul." Albert Camus' The Outsider is an excellent example of this.

The character Meursault in The Outsider refuses to accept ... "

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