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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... told me I had to see the director first. He was busy, so I waited awhile. The caretaker talked the whole time and then I saw the director. I was shown into his office. He was a little old man with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor in ...
... told me I had to see the director first. He was busy, so I waited awhile. The caretaker talked the whole time and then I saw the director. I was shown into his office. He was a little old man with the ribbon of the Legion of Honor in ...
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... told him he would end up caretaker at the Marengo home. He was sixty-four and came from Paris. At that point I ... told me that they had to bury her quickly, because it gets hot in the plains, especially in this part of the country. That ...
... told him he would end up caretaker at the Marengo home. He was sixty-four and came from Paris. At that point I ... told me that they had to bury her quickly, because it gets hot in the plains, especially in this part of the country. That ...
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... told me that he'd come to the home because he was destitute. He was in good health, so he'd offered to take on the job of caretaker. I pointed out that even so he was still a resident. He said no, he wasn't. I'd already been struck by ...
... told me that he'd come to the home because he was destitute. He was in good health, so he'd offered to take on the job of caretaker. I pointed out that even so he was still a resident. He said no, he wasn't. I'd already been struck by ...
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... , one of the old men woke up and coughed a lot. He kept hacking into a large checkered handkerchief, and every cough was like a convulsion. He woke the others up, and the caretaker told them that they ii 0 THE STRANGER 0.
... , one of the old men woke up and coughed a lot. He kept hacking into a large checkered handkerchief, and every cough was like a convulsion. He woke the others up, and the caretaker told them that they ii 0 THE STRANGER 0.
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Albert Camus. the others up, and the caretaker told them that they ought to be going. They got up. The uncomfortable ... told me that the director was asking for me. I went to his office. He had me sign a number of documents. I noticed ...
Albert Camus. the others up, and the caretaker told them that they ought to be going. They got up. The uncomfortable ... told me that the director was asking for me. I went to his office. He had me sign a number of documents. I noticed ...
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