The Outsider
$16.90
- Paperback
128 pages
- Release Date
1 January 2014
Summary
The classic existentialist novel, in a wonderful new translation by Sandra Smith, now in paperback.
Meursault leads an unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenge the fundamental values of society - a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. For Meursault, this is an insult to his reason; for Camus …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141198064 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0141198060 |
| Author: | Albert Camus, Sandra Smith |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Classics |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 128 |
| Release Date: | 1 January 2014 |
| Weight: | 106g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 128mm x 9mm |
| Series: | Penguin Modern Classics |
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Critics Review
Smith’s new version … treats Camus’ text with respect, directness and an unexpected delicateness. She reveals, and permits, an original edgy strangeness in the prose itself; she treats it sensually, listening to Camus’ original sentence structures and lengths, and to the rhythmic fall of his prose – Ali Smith * The Times *
About The Author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus (1913-1960), French novelist, essayist and playwright, is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. His most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Plague (1947), The Just (1949), The Rebel (1951) and The Fall (1956). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, and his last novel, The First Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared in print for the first time in 1994.
Sandra Smith was born and raised in New York City and is a Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, where she teaches French Literature and Language. She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize, as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.
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