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Is Albert Camus' 'The Stranger' anything like Calvinist theory?

'The Stranger' wasn't Camus' best book by any means (maybe that was 'The Plague'), yet crucible was the nauseau at the realization that anything exists at all...Calvinism implicitly recognizes the absolute power of God, and his omniscience. How can God live with the horrible realization of Absolute Being, Absolute Creator, Eternal Existence and the self-awareness of Camus' point?


  • doesn't look like it.

    In 'The Stranger' it didn't seem to me that there were any Elect Characters. The two share a sort of condemnation, but the Meursault doesn't seem to know anything of shame, penitence, good works, or faith and indeed the jury and his own defense condemn him for it. You could argue that Camus's character is a prime example of the blind spots of Calvinism, I guess. With the murder being impelled by the Algerian Sun. Calvin on his part could be called the point of light within Absurdism, though he hasn't written anything to such effect. Beyond that I'd have to be told of more of the similarities outside of this very narrow set.

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