And Ladies and welcome to oral presentations podcast. This is episode 76 and it's called French Psycho Albert Camus the Stranger.

How you doing? I hope your Monday's going okay. The plot of this book threw me off and I had to look up

What is what was going on here? So let me okay first off the stranger is a novel from 1942 published in 43 by French author Albert Camu

and the book is cited as an example of Camu's philosophy which is absurdism

and some people say existentialism but they asked him about is it existentialism in

1955 and he was like no no no the book's just about absurdism all right so why is the episode called French Psycho?

All right, it's after the book,

that's also a movie American Psycho,

because when I first got this story down I got all the way through it

I really didn't understand what was going on and I at this point in time I might just

have to accept that I don't like books. Like I like doing 1984 and Dante's

Inferno was cool but I had to look up what this meant man because it just seemed like like Patrick Bateman dialogue

guy just misreading social cues the whole time also we're doing this one in two parts it is a short book but the book is also broken up into two separate parts.

The first one is a number of events where we're going to follow our main character named Marso, who's also the stranger,

and as he goes through a series of events in his life.

And then the second part is like a courtroom drama that replays the events of the first part

through the lens of the French justice system.

But this is part one, so we're going to follow Marceau, the stranger, as he narrates the

events of his life as they occur. And here's a thing, he doesn't really interpret them as a cohesive narrative,

because according to Camus philosophy, the universe is indifferent to human struggle,

and Mershe's indifferent personality embodies that philosophy.

So the main character Marsoe is just a stand in for Camus philosophy of how the universe is versus human struggle.

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