TY - JOUR
AU - BRYSON, DOROTHY
AB - PLOT AND COUNTER-PLOT IN L'ETRANGER Few texts have been as nicely picked over as L'Etranger. And yet, although it might seem that only the most refinedly rarefied of its aspects now remain to be exploited, there is still something important to be said about its most obvious character as a literary statement about moral values — something crucial to the defence of Camus's disputed good name as a man lucidly and sincerely committed to die cause of humanity. Like Philip Thody's article of 1.979,1 Isabelle Ansel's study of L'Etranger published in 19812 represents a reformulation (while at the same time a considerable enrichment, with the wealth of original insights it contains) of Conor Cruise O'Brien's notorious contention of yore (itself an elaboration on kindred ideas put forward a decade before by Pierre Nora and Henn Kr6a)3 that Camus effectively colludes in a racist indifference in his hero Meursault to die fate of die Arab victims in the text For Dr. O'Brien, Meursault's innocence is contrived at die expense of the very human status of the man he kills and diis bespeaks die quintessenual colonialist contempt in Camus for die subject people;4 for Mme Ansel, eleven years on, "Le probleme 
TI - PLOT AND COUNTER-PLOT IN L'ÉTRANGER
JF - Forum for Modern Language Studies
DO - 10.1093/fmls/XXIV.3.272
DA - 1988-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/plot-and-counter-plot-in-l-tranger-slbGcFv0au
SP - 272
EP - 279
VL - XXIV
IS - 3
DP - DeepDyve
ER -