The StrangerA young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character ... |
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... interest- ing . So , really I've no reason for freezing him off . His name is Sintès ; Raymond Sintès . He's short and thick - set , has a nose like a boxer's , and always dresses very sprucely . He , too , once said to me , referring ...
... interest- ing . So , really I've no reason for freezing him off . His name is Sintès ; Raymond Sintès . He's short and thick - set , has a nose like a boxer's , and always dresses very sprucely . He , too , once said to me , referring ...
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Albert Camus. laborate mentally , it was in his interest that all should go off without a hitch . Another thing I had to recognize was that , until now , I'd had wrong ideas on the subject . For some reason I'd always supposed that one ...
Albert Camus. laborate mentally , it was in his interest that all should go off without a hitch . Another thing I had to recognize was that , until now , I'd had wrong ideas on the subject . For some reason I'd always supposed that one ...
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... interest for something that didn't interest me . He fluttered his hands fretfully ; then , sitting up , smoothed out his cassock . When this was done he began talking again , addressing me as " my friend . " It wasn't because I'd been ...
... interest for something that didn't interest me . He fluttered his hands fretfully ; then , sitting up , smoothed out his cassock . When this was done he began talking again , addressing me as " my friend . " It wasn't because I'd been ...
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