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 13
... night went by . I can recall only one moment ; I had opened my eyes and I saw the old men sleeping hunched up on their chairs , with one exception . Resting his chin on his hands clasped round his stick , he was staring hard at me , as ...
... night went by . I can recall only one moment ; I had opened my eyes and I saw the old men sleeping hunched up on their chairs , with one exception . Resting his chin on his hands clasped round his stick , he was staring hard at me , as ...
Page 123
... night of easy , dreamless sleep . This was the same hour , but with a difference ; I was returning to a cell , and what awaited me was a night haunted by forebodings of the coming day . And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the ...
... night of easy , dreamless sleep . This was the same hour , but with a difference ; I was returning to a cell , and what awaited me was a night haunted by forebodings of the coming day . And so I learned that familiar paths traced in the ...
Page 141
... night was coming . An- other thing I did to deflect the course of my thoughts was to listen to my heart . I couldn't ... night for the first hint of daybreak in the dark dome above . The worst period of the night was that vague hour when ...
... night was coming . An- other thing I did to deflect the course of my thoughts was to listen to my heart . I couldn't ... night for the first hint of daybreak in the dark dome above . The worst period of the night was that vague hour when ...
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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 hadn't 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 oilcloth once Pérez police policeman prison Prosecutor queer question Raymond remarks replied round Salamano sand seemed shouted silence smile smoking sort sound 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