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 146
... cassock . When this was done he began talking again , addressing me as " my friend . " It wasn't because I'd been condemned to death , he said , that he spoke to me in this way . In his opinion every man on the earth was under sentence ...
... cassock . When this was done he began talking again , addressing me as " my friend . " It wasn't because I'd been condemned to death , he said , that he spoke to me in this way . In his opinion every man on the earth was under sentence ...
Page 151
... cassock , and , in a sort of ecstasy of joy and rage , I poured out on him all the thoughts that had been simmering in my brain . He seemed so cocksure , you see . And yet none of his certainties was worth one strand of a woman's hair ...
... cassock , and , in a sort of ecstasy of joy and rage , I poured out on him all the thoughts that had been simmering in my brain . He seemed so cocksure , you see . And yet none of his certainties was worth one strand of a woman's hair ...
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