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 96
... jailer , who went the rounds with the kitchen hands at mealtimes . It was he who brought up the subject of women . " That's what the men here grumble about most , " he told me . I said I felt like that myself . " There's something ...
... jailer , who went the rounds with the kitchen hands at mealtimes . It was he who brought up the subject of women . " That's what the men here grumble about most , " he told me . I said I felt like that myself . " There's something ...
Page 97
... jailer nodded . " Yes , you're different , you can use your brains . The others can't . Still , those fellows find a way out ; they do it by themselves . " With which remark the jailer left my cell . Next day I did like the others . The ...
... jailer nodded . " Yes , you're different , you can use your brains . The others can't . Still , those fellows find a way out ; they do it by themselves . " With which remark the jailer left my cell . Next day I did like the others . The ...
Page 100
... kept some meaning . When , one morning , the jailer informed me I'd now been six months in jail , I believed him - but the words conveyed nothing to my mind . To me it seemed like one and the same day that had been 100.
... kept some meaning . When , one morning , the jailer informed me I'd now been six months in jail , I believed him - but the words conveyed nothing to my mind . To me it seemed like one and the same day that had been 100.
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