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 23
... swim would do me good . So I caught the streetcar that goes down to the harbor . It was quite like old times ; a lot of young people were in the swimming pool , amongst them Marie Cardona , who used to be a typist at the office . I was ...
... swim would do me good . So I caught the streetcar that goes down to the harbor . It was quite like old times ; a lot of young people were in the swimming pool , amongst them Marie Cardona , who used to be a typist at the office . I was ...
Page 64
... swim back to the beach and slump down on the sand under the sun . In the distance he looked enormous , like a stranded whale . Then Marie proposed that we should swim tandem . She went ahead and I put my arms round her waist , from ...
... swim back to the beach and slump down on the sand under the sun . In the distance he looked enormous , like a stranded whale . Then Marie proposed that we should swim tandem . She went ahead and I put my arms round her waist , from ...
Page 83
... swim , the fight , then the beach again , and the five shots I'd fired . But I went over it all again , and after each phrase he nodded . " Quite so , quite so . " When I described the body lying on the sand , he nodded more ...
... swim , the fight , then the beach again , and the five shots I'd fired . But I went over it all again , and after each phrase he nodded . " Quite so , quite so . " When I described the body lying on the sand , he nodded more ...
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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