The Stranger
Camus, Albert
Ward, Matthew (TRN)
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BOOK 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 SYNOPSIS
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.
AUTHOR BIO
Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Strangernow one of the most widely read novels of this centuryin 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.
From the Hardcover edition.
BOOK REVIEWS
The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Wards translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camuss stoical anti-hero and Âdevious 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
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MORE BOOK INFO
ISBN: 0679720200
ISBN(13-digit): 9780679720201
Copyright: 1989
Dewey Decimal: 843/.914
Library of Congress: 88040378
Book Publisher: Random House Inc
Language: ENG
Paper Weight (lb): 0.35
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