Postmodern currents and their influence on Albert Camus' novel The Stranger

Abstract

This study aims to delve into the world of the novel, which represents a qualitative control of Western intellectual inputs aimed at destabilizing Algerian society, but in a veiled manner and with implicit cultural patterns. The new emerging from it: the existential current, the principle of rejection of the absolute, the absurd current, and the principle of revolution against values ​​that lead to nothingness; To apply this to the novel The Stranger by Albert Camus; Which forces us to mention the authoritarian colonial history, and the secrets of the forward-looking picture of what Algeria has become after three years of writing the novel with the May 8 massacres.