Although the book is taught in classrooms as "existential,"
the main
character is no philosopher; he proposes no "-ism." He
considers himself
an ordinary person, of rather fixed habits. He commits a
murder for no
compelling reason and doesn't feel particularly guilty. I
would think that
the psychology of such a character might be of interest to
anyone
interested in crime. Just to bounce off the wall with this,
Colin Wilson,
who seems to have made a career writing about true crime
(Order of
Assassins: The Psychology of Murder & many others),
started with a famous
study of "existential" alienation called The Outsider.
Etienne goes on to say,
>The most obvious, was Camus' reference to Horace
Mc
>Coy in the trial sequence of L'Etranger.
I'm interested and missed it the first time. Where does the
reference
occur in the novel?
Bill Hagen
<billha@ionet.net>
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