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 90
... jailer entered and said I had a visitor . I thought it must be Marie , and so it was . To go to the Visitors ' Room , I was taken along a corridor , then up a flight of steps , then along an- other corridor . It was a very large room ...
... jailer entered and said I had a visitor . I thought it must be Marie , and so it was . To go to the Visitors ' Room , I was taken along a corridor , then up a flight of steps , then along an- other corridor . It was a very large room ...
Page 100
... kept some meaning . When , one morning , the jailer informed me I'd now been six months in jail , I believed him - but the words conveyed nothing to my mind . To me it seemed like one and the same day that had been ΙΟΟ.
... kept some meaning . When , one morning , the jailer informed me I'd now been six months in jail , I believed him - but the words conveyed nothing to my mind . To me it seemed like one and the same day that had been ΙΟΟ.
Page 101
... jailer left me I shined up my tin pan- nikin and studied my face in it . My expression was terribly serious , I thought , even when I tried to smile . I held the pannikin at different angles , but always my face had the same mournful ...
... jailer left me I shined up my tin pan- nikin and studied my face in it . My expression was terribly serious , I thought , even when I tried to smile . I held the pannikin at different angles , but always my face had the same mournful ...
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