The Stranger

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Vintage Books, 1942 - Literary Collections - 154 pages
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Meursault, an ordinary little clerk living in Algiers, leads a quiet and unemotional life. He commits a senseless murder and is convicted, his lack of emotion toward his mother's death weighing against him. As he contemplates his execution, he considers the value of life and is on the verge of exhibiting feeling.

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Page 9
But I wasn't sure if I should smoke, under the circumstances— in Mother's
presence. I thought it over; really, it didn't seem to matter, so I offered the keeper a
cigarette, and we both smoked. After a while he started talking again. “You know,
your ...
Page 97
Smoking was forbidden, they informed me. That, perhaps, was what got me down
the most; in fact, I suffered really badly during the first few days. I even tore off
splinters from my plank bed and sucked them. All day long I felt faint and bilious.
Page 112
Replying to questions, he said that I'd declined to see Mother's body, I'd smoked
cigarettes and slept, and drunk café au lait. It was then I felt a sort of wave of
indignation spreading through the courtroom, and for the first time I understood
that I ...

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Contents

Section 1
1
Section 2
30
Section 3
59
Copyright

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About the author (1942)

Born in 1913 in Algeria, Albert Camus was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was deeply affected by the plight of the French during the Nazi occupation of World War II, who were subject to the military's arbitrary whims. He explored the existential human condition in such works as L'Etranger (The Outsider, 1942) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942), which propagated the philosophical notion of the "absurd" that was being given dramatic expression by other Theatre of the Absurd dramatists of the 1950s and 1960s. Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960.

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TitleThe Stranger
A Vintage book, V-2
Vintage literature
AuthorAlbert Camus
Translated byStuart Gilbert
Editionreprint
PublisherVintage Books, 1942
ISBN0394700023, 9780394700021
Length154 pages
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