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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... picture they'd been seeing was of the wild - West variety . Those who had been to the picture houses in the middle of the town came a little later , and looked more sedate , though a few were still laughing . On the whole , however ...
... picture they'd been seeing was of the wild - West variety . Those who had been to the picture houses in the middle of the town came a little later , and looked more sedate , though a few were still laughing . On the whole , however ...
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... pictures I had seen . Then one morning I remem- bered a photograph the newspapers had featured on the occasion of the ... picture had escaped my mem- until now . What had struck me at the time was the neat appearance of the guillotine ...
... pictures I had seen . Then one morning I remem- bered a photograph the newspapers had featured on the occasion of the ... picture had escaped my mem- until now . What had struck me at the time was the neat appearance of the guillotine ...
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... picture of a human being helpless i . life's grip . " Albert Camus does not write for the mom : t . His message will have a universal appeal to some minds , know se who like Kafka and Dostoievsky , we hey like Gide and Malraux . And ...
... picture of a human being helpless i . life's grip . " Albert Camus does not write for the mom : t . His message will have a universal appeal to some minds , know se who like Kafka and Dostoievsky , we hey like Gide and Malraux . And ...
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