The stranger / Albert Camus ; translated from the French by Matthew Ward ; with an introduction by Peter Dunwoodie.
Material type: TextLanguage: 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
- Etranger. English
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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.