The StrangerThrough 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 English in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. |
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Page 52
... didn't care much one way or the other . He then asked if a " change of life , " as he called it , didn't appeal to me , and I answered that one never changed his way of life ; one life was as good as another , and my present one suited ...
... didn't care much one way or the other . He then asked if a " change of life , " as he called it , didn't appeal to me , and I answered that one never changed his way of life ; one life was as good as another , and my present one suited ...
Page 67
... didn't know . I gathered that they'd been acquainted for some time and had even lived together for a while . We went down to the water's edge and walked along it ; now and then a longer wave wet our canvas shoes . I wasn't thinking of ...
... didn't know . I gathered that they'd been acquainted for some time and had even lived together for a while . We went down to the water's edge and walked along it ; now and then a longer wave wet our canvas shoes . I wasn't thinking of ...
Page 146
... didn't interest me . And the question he had raised didn't interest me at all . He looked away and , without altering his pos- ture , asked if it was because I felt utterly desperate that I spoke like this . I explained that it wasn't ...
... didn't interest me . And the question he had raised didn't interest me at all . He looked away and , without altering his pos- ture , asked if it was because I felt utterly desperate that I spoke like this . I explained that it wasn't ...
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