Now reading: The outsider, by Albert Camus

Albert Camus, The outsider (1942 / 1982 English translation) This short novel had a profound affect on me when I first read it as a teenager (more than 30 years ago). And still does after multiple re-readings. It begins with perfect indifference. Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don’t know.  To Meursault, it doesn’t matter when. She…

I am what I read (3) 2012

I have introduced a new page: INFLUENCES: a reading list. In 2012 I rediscovered the wonderful prose of Albert Camus. The final sentences of The Stranger are spellbinding. I unearthed Michel Houellebecq’s The map and the territory and Atomised, was delighted by the fact or fiction HHhH by Laurent Binet. And finally two notable reads:…