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How can there be intertextuality between The Stranger and anything else within this universe? Camus would think it absurd! The mere idea that an absurdist novel could have a connection with something other than itself seems pure rebellion against its core philosophic principles. Can one not see the inescapable irony created within the task of finding such intertextuality? But if a connection must be made, what then should it be made to? The clear answer …

…is a dismal and distressful state; the derelict man struggles to live or rather exist, in a hostile and uncaring world. A sense of stagnancy and bareness captivates man, and whenever he tries to assert himself, he is curbed. Both Camus and Beckett encompass all of the aforementioned through their literary works The Stranger and Waiting for Godot respectively. In the end, the eternal hopelessness of life permeates every aspect of both works of literature.