Thom Hamer

Coming to Terms with the Need for Meaning: How an Existential Demand Awakens in Camus’s L’Étranger

Abstract Many critics have argued that Meursault, the protagonist of Albert Camus’s L’Étranger , is profoundly aware that life is absurd. In this paper, I argue that this is partially correct: although Meursault believes that life lacks meaning (the existential lack), he has also...