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 10
... hard to believe they really existed . Nearly all the women wore aprons , and the strings drawn tight round their waists made their big stomachs bulge still more . I'd never yet noticed what big paunches old women usually have . Most of ...
... hard to believe they really existed . Nearly all the women wore aprons , and the strings drawn tight round their waists made their big stomachs bulge still more . I'd never yet noticed what big paunches old women usually have . Most of ...
Page 62
... hard , metallic glint it gets on very hot days . Marie amused herself swishing her bag against the flowers and sending the petals showering in all directions . Then we walked between two rows of little houses with wooden balconies and ...
... hard , metallic glint it gets on very hot days . Marie amused herself swishing her bag against the flowers and sending the petals showering in all directions . Then we walked between two rows of little houses with wooden balconies and ...
Page 106
... slightly ironi- cal indifference , with the exception of one , a much younger man than his colleagues , in gray flannels with a blue tie , who , leaving his pen on the table , was gazing hard at me . He had a plain 106.
... slightly ironi- cal indifference , with the exception of one , a much younger man than his colleagues , in gray flannels with a blue tie , who , leaving his pen on the table , was gazing hard at me . He had a plain 106.
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