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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... amongst themselves in little groups . They fell silent as we came up with them . Then , behind our backs , the chattering began again . Their voices reminded me of parakeets in a cage , only the sound wasn't quite so shrill . The warden 4.
... amongst themselves in little groups . They fell silent as we came up with them . Then , behind our backs , the chattering began again . Their voices reminded me of parakeets in a cage , only the sound wasn't quite so shrill . The warden 4.
Page 101
... sounds were creeping up from all the floors of the prison in a sort of stealthy proces- sion . I went to the barred ... sound- ing in my ears . So I knew that all this time I'd been talking to myself . And something I'd been told came ...
... sounds were creeping up from all the floors of the prison in a sort of stealthy proces- sion . I went to the barred ... sound- ing in my ears . So I knew that all this time I'd been talking to myself . And something I'd been told came ...
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... sounds of a town I'd loved , and of a certain hour of the day which I had always par- ticularly enjoyed . The shouts of newspaper boys in the already languid air , the last calls of birds in the public garden , the cries of sandwich ...
... sounds of a town I'd loved , and of a certain hour of the day which I had always par- ticularly enjoyed . The shouts of newspaper boys in the already languid air , the last calls of birds in the public garden , the cries of sandwich ...
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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 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 once Pérez police policeman prison Prosecutor queer question Raymond replied round Salamano sand seemed shouted silence smile smoking sort sound Stanford University 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