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The stranger / Albert Camus ; translated from the French by Matthew Ward ; with an introduction by Peter Dunwoodie.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: Everyman's library ; 139Publication details: New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House, 1993.Description: xxxv, 117 p. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 0679420266
  • 9780679420262
Uniform titles:
  • Etranger. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent imprisonment and trial are puzzling and absurd. The apparently amoral Meursault--who puts little stock in ideas like love and God--seems to be on trial less for his murderous actions, and more for what the authorities believe is his deficient character.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

With the excitement of a perfectly executed thriller and the force of a parable, The Stranger is the ultimate masterpiece from Nobel Prize Winner Albert Camus--one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century.

Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a murder in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with an almost scientific clarity, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.

Includes bibliographical references (p. xxviii-xxix).

When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent imprisonment and trial are puzzling and absurd. The apparently amoral Meursault--who puts little stock in ideas like love and God--seems to be on trial less for his murderous actions, and more for what the authorities believe is his deficient character.

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