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 127
... never been able really to regret anything in all my life . I've always been far too much absorbed in the present moment , or the immediate future , to think back . Of course , in the position into which I had been forced , there was no ...
... never been able really to regret anything in all my life . I've always been far too much absorbed in the present moment , or the immediate future , to think back . Of course , in the position into which I had been forced , there was no ...
Page 141
... never been one of my strong points . Still , I tried to picture a moment when the beating of my heart no longer echoed in my head . But , in vain . The dawn and my appeal were still there . And I ended by be- lieving it was a silly ...
... never been one of my strong points . Still , I tried to picture a moment when the beating of my heart no longer echoed in my head . But , in vain . The dawn and my appeal were still there . And I ended by be- lieving it was a silly ...
Page 149
... never seen it , and now I'd given up trying . Indeed , I'd never seen anything " taking form , " as he called it , against those gray walls . The chaplain gazed at me with a sort of sadness . I now had my back to the wall and light was ...
... never seen it , and now I'd given up trying . Indeed , I'd never seen anything " taking form , " as he called it , against those gray walls . The chaplain gazed at me with a sort of sadness . I now had my back to the wall and light was ...
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