Document Type : Research Article
Author
Department of French Language and Literature, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
Abstract
The purpose of this article is to show the creation of sense and the relation between reflection and narrative function in the novel “stranger” by Albert Camus. While studying the structure of this narration, we try to surpass the surface and penetrate the deepest layers of the text, in order to find, not only the meaningful surface structures but also the ones beyond the text. As a reason, we believe that these inner structures contain signification, and these deep structural connections can also create the sense.
We believe that there is a direct relationship between narrator and narrative structure; in another words the narrator’s reflection has determined the narrative structure in this novel. Death has a very important place in the nihilism of Camus, and basically this nihilism happens when man feels a distance between self and self (self strangeness), self and others (stranger among others) and self and the universe. As a result, distance and separation are the main reason for this feeling; and that is why the initial, central and terminal part of this narration commences, continues and terminates with the act of death.
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