The StrangerWith the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. “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 First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward. |
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Albert Camus. ALBERT CAMUS K N A T I O N A I. "Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service. The Stranger is now a dif- its American readers; it is now our classic as well as France's." —Chicago Sun-Times T* T t Q INTERNATIONAL THE ...
Albert Camus. ALBERT CAMUS K N A T I O N A I. "Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service. The Stranger is now a dif- its American readers; it is now our classic as well as France's." —Chicago Sun-Times T* T t Q INTERNATIONAL THE ...
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Albert Camus. ALSO BY ALBERT CAMUS Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 Notebooks 1942-195 1 (Carnets, Janvier 1942— wars 195 1 ) 1965 Notebooks 1935-1942 (Carnets, mai 1935— février 1942J 1963 Resistance, Rebellion, and Death ...
Albert Camus. ALSO BY ALBERT CAMUS Awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957 Notebooks 1942-195 1 (Carnets, Janvier 1942— wars 195 1 ) 1965 Notebooks 1935-1942 (Carnets, mai 1935— février 1942J 1963 Resistance, Rebellion, and Death ...
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Albert Camus. THE STRANGER ALBERT CAMUS Translated from the French hy Matthew Ward VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL VINTAGE BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC. NEW YORK First Vintage International Edition, March 1989 Copyright © 1988 by.
Albert Camus. THE STRANGER ALBERT CAMUS Translated from the French hy Matthew Ward VINTAGE INTERNATIONAL VINTAGE BOOKS A DIVISION OF RANDOM HOUSE, INC. NEW YORK First Vintage International Edition, March 1989 Copyright © 1988 by.
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