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is considered timeless and universal because it is an existential text
which deals with the intrinsic nature of life, the insignificance of the individual, life's
absurdity, and accompanying alienation--all of which are themes prevalent in many literary
works.
Much like Hemingway's stoic protagonists, Mersault tries to squeeze
from life what he can because only nothingness waits at the end of life; it is in the living of
life that one carves...
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