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 128
... death , is no less unfit to have a place in the commu- nity than that other man who did to death the fa- ther that begat him . And , indeed , the one crime led on to the other ; the first of these two criminals , the man in the dock ...
... death , is no less unfit to have a place in the commu- nity than that other man who did to death the fa- ther that begat him . And , indeed , the one crime led on to the other ; the first of these two criminals , the man in the dock ...
Page 143
... death had cornered me . Once you're up against it , the precise manner of your death has obviously small importance . Therefore - but it was hard not to lose the thread of the argument leading up to that " therefore " -I should be ...
... death had cornered me . Once you're up against it , the precise manner of your death has obviously small importance . Therefore - but it was hard not to lose the thread of the argument leading up to that " therefore " -I should be ...
Page 146
... death , he said , that he spoke to me in this way . In his opinion every man on the earth was under sentence of death . There , I interrupted him ; that wasn't the same thing , I pointed out , and , what's more 146.
... death , he said , that he spoke to me in this way . In his opinion every man on the earth was under sentence of death . There , I interrupted him ; that wasn't the same thing , I pointed out , and , what's more 146.
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