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"Maman died today. Or yesterday maybe, I don't know."

• stavros 5y ago
  That's already in the article (yours is two sentences though).
  • pklausler 5y ago
    Both of the first two sentences need to be there, I felt. (Camus uses very short sentences in the first parts of the book.) In the last part, the apparent lack of emotion in the face of his mother's death is used in evidence for Meursault's uncaring nature at the trial.
    • stavros 5y ago
      I very much agree with you.
• doc_gunthrop 5y ago
  That's the version I have; the Matthew Ward translation. Some other versions start with "Mother died today" or "Mama died today", but I prefer this version. This book also inspired the song "Killing an Arab" by The Cure.