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 72
... steps , but I halted on the bottom one . The light seemed thudding in my head and I couldn't face the effort needed to go up the steps and make myself amiable to the women . But the heat was so great that it was just as bad staying ...
... steps , but I halted on the bottom one . The light seemed thudding in my head and I couldn't face the effort needed to go up the steps and make myself amiable to the women . But the heat was so great that it was just as bad staying ...
Page 75
... steps toward the stream . The Arab didn't move . After all , there was still some distance between us . Perhaps ... step forward . I knew it was a fool thing to do ; I wouldn't get out of the sun by moving on a yard or so . But I took ...
... steps toward the stream . The Arab didn't move . After all , there was still some distance between us . Perhaps ... step forward . I knew it was a fool thing to do ; I wouldn't get out of the sun by moving on a yard or so . But I took ...
Page 140
... steps and climb on to a scaffold , to be guillotined . Probably that was because of the 1789 Revolution ; I mean , what I'd learned about it at school , and the pictures I had seen . Then one morning I remem- bered a photograph the ...
... steps and climb on to a scaffold , to be guillotined . Probably that was because of the 1789 Revolution ; I mean , what I'd learned about it at school , and the pictures I had seen . Then one morning I remem- bered a photograph the ...
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