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 89
... speak . On the day of my arrest they put me in a biggish room with several other prisoners , mostly Arabs . They grinned when they saw me enter , and asked me what I'd done . I told them I'd killed an Arab , and they kept mum for a ...
... speak . On the day of my arrest they put me in a biggish room with several other prisoners , mostly Arabs . They grinned when they saw me enter , and asked me what I'd done . I told them I'd killed an Arab , and they kept mum for a ...
Page 130
... it was still further to exclude me from the case , to put me off the map , so to speak , by substituting the lawyer for myself . Anyway , it hardly mattered ; I already felt worlds away from this courtroom and its tedious 130.
... it was still further to exclude me from the case , to put me off the map , so to speak , by substituting the lawyer for myself . Anyway , it hardly mattered ; I already felt worlds away from this courtroom and its tedious 130.
Page 140
... disap- pointing . The business of climbing a scaffold , leav- ing the world below , so to speak , gave something for a man's imagination to get hold of . But , as it was , the machine dominated everything ; they killed you 140.
... disap- pointing . The business of climbing a scaffold , leav- ing the world below , so to speak , gave something for a man's imagination to get hold of . But , as it was , the machine dominated everything ; they killed you 140.
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