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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Albert Camus. Some days later I was put by myself in a cell , where I slept on a plank bed hinged to the wall . The only other furniture was a latrine bucket and a tin basin . The prison stands on rising ground , and through my little ...
Albert Camus. Some days later I was put by myself in a cell , where I slept on a plank bed hinged to the wall . The only other furniture was a latrine bucket and a tin basin . The prison stands on rising ground , and through my little ...
Page 101
... cell , and that I'd been doing the same thing all the time . After the 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 ...
... cell , and that I'd been doing the same thing all the time . After the 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 ...
Page 148
... cell , almost the only choice lay between standing up and sitting down . I was staring at the floor . He took a single step toward me , and halted , as if he didn't dare to come nearer . Then he looked up through the bars at the sky ...
... cell , almost the only choice lay between standing up and sitting down . I was staring at the floor . He took a single step toward me , and halted , as if he didn't dare to come nearer . Then he looked up through the bars at the sky ...
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