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 97
... cell . Next day I did like the others . The lack of cigarettes , too , was a trial . When I was brought to the prison , they took away my belt , my shoelaces , and the contents of my pockets , in- cluding my cigarettes . Once I had been ...
... cell . Next day I did like the others . The lack of cigarettes , too , was a trial . When I was brought to the prison , they took away my belt , my shoelaces , and the contents of my pockets , in- cluding my cigarettes . Once I had been ...
Page 123
... cell , and what awaited me was a night haunted by forebodings of the coming day . And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prisons as to innocent , untroubled sleep . IV It is always ...
... cell , and what awaited me was a night haunted by forebodings of the coming day . And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the dusk of summer evenings may lead as well to prisons as to innocent , untroubled sleep . IV It is always ...
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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