La prison Camusienne dans L'étranger
un donjon de terreur ou un ennui
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https://doi.org/10.24310/analecta.v43i.15934Keywords:
anti-prisoner, penal psychology, rebel, imprisonment, rebellion, act of refusingAbstract
Imprisonment is meant to be a punishment, a torture if you will, but not a place of detention where the prisoner is indifferent to his fate. However, we see in the Stranger by Albert Camus characters who find themselves, or will find themselves in situations of captivity, but who face them with honesty or indifference. They are called anti-prisoners —beings who reverse the effect of penal psychology. Instead of suffering from the experience, they triumph over it and end up freeing themselves in their own way. If we observe penal psychology over the centuries, we will see that these characters reflect a true segment of the prison population by their unusual reaction.
Meursault’s mother spent the last years of her life in an old people’s home where she was happy, or at least satisfied. Salamano’s spaniel escapes to end his ordeal. In doing so, he destroys the joy of punishing that Salamano exerted. Meursault himself ends up completely flouting both his lawyer and the investigating judge as well as the prosecutor by refusing to play the legal game, to fight to save his life in a dishonest way.
These three characters are not prisoners, but anti-prisoners. They escape from their jailer and destroy the psychology of the punishment process. Camus has created beings that may seem unlikely, but which signal the strength of the rebels who maintain their self esteem.
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