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Sanyat Sattar, Abu Saleh Md. Rafi
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DOI:10.17265/2159-5836/2014.11.001
Jahangirnagar University, Dhaka, Bangladesh Daffodil International University, Dhaka, Bangladesh
Syed Waliullah (1922-1971) and Albert Camus (1913-1960) are two distinct writers from two different continents. These writers have interesting commonness, especially in two of their novels—Chander Amabasya (Night of No Moon), by Walilullah and The Outsider by Camus. The protagonists in both of these novels, Arif Ali and Meursault respectively, suffer from existentialist crisis, mainly fueled by the impacts of the tarnished history of colonialism and the aftermaths. Even though the stories of the these protagonists take place almost half way round the world in entirely different settings, the impacts and facades of the crisis are strikingly similar. This paper is a comparative study of soul-searching Arif Ali and Meursault.
Existentialism, colonialism, postcolonialism, absurdity, meaninglessness, death
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