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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... stop . The others didn't seem to notice . They sat in silence , slumped in their chairs , staring at the coffin or at their walk- ing sticks or any object just in front of them , and never took their eyes off it . And still the woman ...
... stop . The others didn't seem to notice . They sat in silence , slumped in their chairs , staring at the coffin or at their walk- ing sticks or any object just in front of them , and never took their eyes off it . And still the woman ...
Page 33
... stop at a lamppost , the old boy won't let him , and drags him on , and the wretched spaniel leaves behind him a trail of little drops . But , if he does it in the room , it means an- other hiding . It's been going on like this for ...
... stop at a lamppost , the old boy won't let him , and drags him on , and the wretched spaniel leaves behind him a trail of little drops . But , if he does it in the room , it means an- other hiding . It's been going on like this for ...
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... stop he glanced back over his shoulder and said the Arabs weren't following . I , too , looked back . They were exactly as before , gazing in the same vague way at the spot where we had been . When we were in the bus , Raymond , who now ...
... stop he glanced back over his shoulder and said the Arabs weren't following . I , too , looked back . They were exactly as before , gazing in the same vague way at the spot where we had been . When we were in the bus , Raymond , who now ...
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