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 15
... Pérez . " The warden smiled . " It's a rather touching little story in its way . He and your mother had become almost inseparable . The other old people used to tease Pérez about having a fiancée . ' When are you going to marry her ...
... Pérez . " The warden smiled . " It's a rather touching little story in its way . He and your mother had become almost inseparable . The other old people used to tease Pérez about having a fiancée . ' When are you going to marry her ...
Page 18
... Pérez , who had put on his hat , took it off again . I had turned slightly in his direction and was looking at him when the warden started telling me more about him . I re- member his saying that old Pérez and my mother used often to ...
... Pérez , who had put on his hat , took it off again . I had turned slightly in his direction and was looking at him when the warden started telling me more about him . I re- member his saying that old Pérez and my mother used often to ...
Page 22
... Pérez's fainting fit - he crumpled up like a rag doll - the tawny - red earth pattering on Mother's coffin , the bits of white roots mixed up with it ; then more people , voices , the wait outside a café for the bus , the rumble of the ...
... Pérez's fainting fit - he crumpled up like a rag doll - the tawny - red earth pattering on Mother's coffin , the bits of white roots mixed up with it ; then more people , voices , the wait outside a café for the bus , the rumble of the ...
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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 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 once Pérez police policeman prison Prosecutor queer question Raymond remarks replied round Salamano sand seemed shouted silence smile smoking sort sound STANFORD UNIVERSITY 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