Questions tagged [a-happy-death]
Questions about 'A Happy Death' ('La mort heureuse'), a novel by Albert Camus written in the years 1936-1938 and published posthumously in 1971. Use with the tags [albert-camus] and [french-literature].
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What is the significance of the names Mersault and Meursault?
The novel A Happy Death, written in the late 1930s and published posthumously in 1971, has a main character named Patrice Mersault. Camus's novel The Stranger, written a few years later and published ...
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Why does Mersault say "Hello image!" to his girlfriend?
I have read the novel A Happy Death by Albert Camus. In this novel Mersault (the absurd hero) at one point says to his girlfriend, "Hello, image!". I am wondering why he calls his girlfriend "image". ...
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What does Camus mean by this sentence?
I read 'A happy death' by 'Albert Camus' . In this book , Mersault once said:
Believe me, there is no such thing as great suffering, great regret, great memory . . . Everything is
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What does Camus mean by "the disastrous fact that love and desire must be expressed in the same way"?
Here is a set of lines from the book A Happy Death by Albert Camus:
In the past, whenever Mersault had spent any time with one woman, he made the first gestures of commitment, he was conscious of ...
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