the murderous impulses ...

[pars]

Dear all:
What is the exact meaning of the sentences in bold in the following passage? It is from the book The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran, by Afshin Marashi, p. 19.

Like the Indian Ocean, the oceanic ecumene of the Mediterranean produced its own history of manifold encounters and array of responses, including imaginings that encompassed both a
transcultural “Mediterranean humanism” that Camus invoked in some of his journalistic writings, and—just as consequentially—the murderous impulses of Meursault on the beach in The Stranger, or the allegory of fascist petulance sweeping over the shores of Oran in The Plague.

Thanks very much.

 

[emsr2d2]

Which of those three words do you not understand? (Your title suggests you're only confused about "the murderous impulses".)

 

[pars]

Which of those three words do you not understand? (Your title suggests you're only confused about "the murderous impulses".)

All the words in bold are problematic! I'm confused about the meaning of that sentence which is in bold.

 

[emsr2d2]

Have you read either of those books by Camus (The Stranger and The Plague)? It strikes me that anyone who hasn't read them isn't going to understand the real meaning of the sentence. It references those two books.

 

[Ostap]

All the words in bold are problematic! I'm confused about the meaning of that sentence which is in bold.

Are the proper nouns confusing you? The Plague and The Stranger are novels' titles. Meursault is a novel character's name, Oran is a place in a novel too.

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[pars]

Which of those three words do you not understand? (Your title suggests you're only confused about "the murderous impulses".)

Hi:
All the words in bold are problematic.

 

[jutfrank]

All the words in bold are problematic.

No, not all of them. Tell us exactly which ones.