
Kafka is a novel about a man named Joseph who witnesses an absurd form of justice based on the lack of logic in the legal system that arrests and executes him.Īccording to Kafka, all persons are guilty of something. Therefore, the events and characters represented in the story accurately define absurdity by illustrating its role in the universe, its significance, and its relationship with human existence. This rebellion leads to his eventual execution by the trial.īy carefully selecting the characters in the novel, Camus can develop a philosophy of absurdity by illustrating that the universe is marred with absurdity as demonstrated by the absurdist opinions of the protagonist, the judge, the jury, and the prosecution.

By forcing his absurd outlooks and visions about the meaning of life to the universe, the stranger is seen to be in a revolt with the universe. The Stranger by Albert Camus is a novel about a man named Meursault who is unable to outdo the absurdity of his daily existence in a peculiar world that is indifferent in terms of struggles by its human habitats.
