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: Modern readings often focus on the erasure of the Arab victim , highlighting the colonial tensions of French-occupied Algeria.

Meursault doesn’t commit a crime of passion; he commits a crime of detachment. After his mother’s funeral, he drinks coffee, smokes, watches a comedy film, and begins a physical relationship with Marie. When he later shoots an Arab man on a blindingly hot beach—with no clear motive—it is his reaction to the murder, not the murder itself, that seals his fate. At his trial, the prosecution hardly focuses on the killing. Instead, they dissect his behavior at his mother’s funeral: his failure to cry, his refusal to see her body, his drinking a cup of coffee with milk. albert camus estrangeiro top

“I had been right, I was still right, I was always right. I had lived my life one way and I could just as well have lived it another.” : Modern readings often focus on the erasure