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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Albert Camus. THE STRANGER 3633 Copyright 1942 by Librairie Gallimard as L'Étranger Copyright 1946 by Alfred A. Knopf , Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan - American Copyright Conventions . Published in the United ...
Albert Camus. THE STRANGER 3633 Copyright 1942 by Librairie Gallimard as L'Étranger Copyright 1946 by Alfred A. Knopf , Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan - American Copyright Conventions . Published in the United ...
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Albert Camus. enough memories never to be bored . Obviously , in one way , this was a compensation . Then there was sleep . To begin with , I slept badly at night and never in the day . But gradually my nights became better , and I ...
Albert Camus. enough memories never to be bored . Obviously , in one way , this was a compensation . Then there was sleep . To begin with , I slept badly at night and never in the day . But gradually my nights became better , and I ...
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Albert Camus. making a fresh start . There , too , in that Home where lives were flickering out , the dusk came as a mournful solace . With death so near , Mother must have felt like someone on the brink of freedom , ready to start life ...
Albert Camus. making a fresh start . There , too , in that Home where lives were flickering out , the dusk came as a mournful solace . With death so near , Mother must have felt like someone on the brink of freedom , ready to start life ...
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