Albert Camus: “the Guest”
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...work about alienation and moral responsibility, Albert Camus is often comparied to his one-time soleague, Jean-Paul Sartre. They ceased to be friends when Camus quite the Communist Part and Sartre defended communism under Stalin. Camus’s own descripiton of himself was that he was a pessimist about the human condition, yet he argued against the absurd idea that life is meaningless. Camus was and is will always be recognized as an existentialist. One example of both his theory of existentialism and of his ambiguity in life is the short story The Guest.
The setting of the story is on a remote, isolated plateau in the country of Algeria. Camus appears to use this type of landscape to reaffirm the idea of the absence of any benefolent deity in this fictional world that he had created. He describes the area as bare rock where towns once sprange up, pospered and then would disappeared....
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