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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... Marengo , some fifty miles from Algiers . With the two- o'clock bus I should get there well before night- fall . Then I can spend the night there , keeping the usual vigil beside the body , and be back here by tomorrow evening . I have ...
... Marengo , some fifty miles from Algiers . With the two- o'clock bus I should get there well before night- fall . Then I can spend the night there , keeping the usual vigil beside the body , and be back here by tomorrow evening . I have ...
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... Marengo and the sea . A morning breeze was blowing and it had a pleasant salty tang . There was the promise of a very fine day . I hadn't been in the country for ages , and I caught myself thinking what an agreeable walk I could have ...
... Marengo and the sea . A morning breeze was blowing and it had a pleasant salty tang . There was the promise of a very fine day . I hadn't been in the country for ages , and I caught myself thinking what an agreeable walk I could have ...
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... Marengo . He's a bit ahead of time . " He warned me that it would take us a good three quarters of an hour , walking to the church , which was in the village . Then we went downstairs . The priest was waiting just outside the mortuary ...
... Marengo . He's a bit ahead of time . " He warned me that it would take us a good three quarters of an hour , walking to the church , which was in the village . Then we went downstairs . The priest was waiting just outside the mortuary ...
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