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 58
... knew better ; he knew how devoted to my mother I had always been . I answered - why , I still don't know - that it sur- prised me to learn I'd produced such a bad impres- sion . As I couldn't afford to keep her here , it seemed the ...
... knew better ; he knew how devoted to my mother I had always been . I answered - why , I still don't know - that it sur- prised me to learn I'd produced such a bad impres- sion . As I couldn't afford to keep her here , it seemed the ...
Page 141
... knew that night was coming . An- other thing I did to deflect the course of my thoughts was to listen to my heart . I couldn't im- agine that this faint throbbing which had been with me for so long would ever cease . Imagination has ...
... knew that night was coming . An- other thing I did to deflect the course of my thoughts was to listen to my heart . I couldn't im- agine that this faint throbbing which had been with me for so long would ever cease . Imagination has ...
Page 149
... knew better than I knew them . And once upon a time , perhaps , I used to try to see a face . But it was a sun - gold face , lit up with desire - Marie's face . I had no luck ; I'd never seen it , and now I'd given up trying . Indeed ...
... knew better than I knew them . And once upon a time , perhaps , I used to try to see a face . But it was a sun - gold face , lit up with desire - Marie's face . I had no luck ; I'd never seen it , and now I'd given up trying . Indeed ...
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ALBERT CAMUS Algiers answered anyhow Arabs asked beach began beside black pudding black tie bungalow café au lait cassock Céleste cell chair cigarette coffin court courtroom crime dark death door doorkeeper explained eyes face fact feel fellow felt Fernandel gave gazing girl guillotine hadn't hair hand he'd head hear heard hearse Home hors d'oeuvre jailer Judge jury keeper knew laughing lawyer light looked magistrate Marengo Marie Marie's Masson men in black ment mind mother mother's funeral move never night noticed oilcloth once Pérez police policeman prison Prosecutor queer question Raymond remarks replied round Salamano sand seemed shouted silence smile smoking sort sound staring started street streetcar struck sure swim talking tell there's thing thought told tone took turned voice waited walked wanted warden window woman young