I read The Stranger some years ago and liked it a lot. The other day, I finished reading The Last Day of a Condemned Man by Victor Hugo and besides finding it very good, I think there's a lot of common ground once Camus' protagonist gets in prison.
The mindset, the confrontation with the priest, the dislike for the people outside… Has anyone else noticed this? I have no proof of it but I'm convinced Camus built on Hugo's idea.
by Eladir