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 82
Albert Camus. to be present . I should be quite entitled , he added , to reserve my answers to his questions until my lawyer could attend . To this I replied that I could answer for myself . He pressed a bell push on his desk and a young ...
Albert Camus. to be present . I should be quite entitled , he added , to reserve my answers to his questions until my lawyer could attend . To this I replied that I could answer for myself . He pressed a bell push on his desk and a young ...
Page 129
... present case . In demanding a verdict of murder without extenuating circumstances , I am following not only the dictates of my conscience and a sacred obligation , but also those of the natural and right- eous indignation I feel at the ...
... present case . In demanding a verdict of murder without extenuating circumstances , I am following not only the dictates of my conscience and a sacred obligation , but also those of the natural and right- eous indignation I feel at the ...
Page 151
... present life and of the death that was coming . That , no doubt , was all I had ; but at least that certainty was something I could get my teeth into - just as it had got its teeth into me . I'd been right , I was still right , I was ...
... present life and of the death that was coming . That , no doubt , was all I had ; but at least that certainty was something I could get my teeth into - just as it had got its teeth into me . I'd been right , I was still right , I was ...
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