The Stranger
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- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
15 December 2014
Summary
Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.”
First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780679720201 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0679720200 |
| Author: | Albert Camus |
| Publisher: | Vintage Books USA |
| Imprint: | Vintage Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 15 December 2014 |
| Weight: | 147g |
| Dimensions: | 202mm x 131mm x 11mm |
| Series: | Vintage International |
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“The Strangeris a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward’s translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus’s stoical anti-hero and
“The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward’s translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus’s stoical anti-hero and -devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity.” -from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie
About The Author
Albert Camus
Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. He spent the early years of his life in North Africa, where he worked at various jobs–in a weather bureau, in an automobile supply firm, in a shipping company–to help pay for his courses at the University of Algiers. He went on to become a journalist, and from 1935 to 1938 he ran the Theatre de l’Equipe, a theatrical company that produced plays by Malraux, Gide, Synge, Dostoyevsky, and others. During World War II he was one of the leading writers of the French Resistance and editor of Combat, then an important underground newspaper. His fiction, incl
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