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 27
... coming . However , the clouds gradually lifted . All the same , they had left in the street a sort of threat of rain , which made it darker . I stayed watching the sky for quite a while . At five there was a loud clanging of streetcars ...
... coming . However , the clouds gradually lifted . All the same , they had left in the street a sort of threat of rain , which made it darker . I stayed watching the sky for quite a while . At five there was a loud clanging of streetcars ...
Page 30
Albert Camus. coming back , after shutting the window , I glanced at the mirror and saw reflected in it a corner of my table with my spirit lamp and some bits of bread beside it . It ... coming back, after shutting the window, I glanced ...
Albert Camus. coming back , after shutting the window , I glanced at the mirror and saw reflected in it a corner of my table with my spirit lamp and some bits of bread beside it . It ... coming back, after shutting the window, I glanced ...
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... 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 interesting , even in the prisoner's dock , to hear oneself being ...
... 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 interesting , even in the prisoner's dock , to hear oneself being ...
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