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The Stranger: Introduction by Keith Gore

Albert Camus

Through 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 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.

Book Details

  • Publisher: Everyman's Library
  • Publish Date: Feb 23rd, 1993
  • Pages: 152
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.36in - 5.18in - 0.56in - 0.56lb
  • EAN: 9780679420262
  • Categories: ClassicsLiteraryPsychological

About the Author

Born in Algeria in 1913, ALBERT CAMUS published The Stranger--now one of the most widely read novels of this century--in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.

Praise for this book

A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME

"The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward's translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus's stoical anti-hero and ­devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity." --from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie