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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Albert Camus. to be present . I should be quite entitled , he added , to reserve my answers to his questions until my lawyer could attend . To this I replied that I could answer for myself . He pressed a bell push on his desk and a young ...
Albert Camus. to be present . I should be quite entitled , he added , to reserve my answers to his questions until my lawyer could attend . To this I replied that I could answer for myself . He pressed a bell push on his desk and a young ...
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... present . " pure I couldn't quite follow what came next . Any- how , after some palavering among the bench , the Prosecutor , and my counsel , the presiding judge announced that the court would now rise ; there was an adjournment till ...
... present . " pure I couldn't quite follow what came next . Any- how , after some palavering among the bench , the Prosecutor , and my counsel , the presiding judge announced that the court would now rise ; there was an adjournment till ...
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... present life and of the death that was coming . That , no doubt , was all I had ; but at least that certainty was something I could get my teeth into - just as it had got its teeth into me . I'd been right , I was still right , I was ...
... present life and of the death that was coming . That , no doubt , was all I had ; but at least that certainty was something I could get my teeth into - just as it had got its teeth into me . I'd been right , I was still right , I was ...
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