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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780679720201 |
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Awards
1957 Nobel Prize
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's extraordinary first novel, The Stranger (L'Etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."
Now, in an illuminating new American translation (the only English version available for more than forty years was done by a British translator), the original intent of The Stranger is made more immediate, as Matthew Ward captures in exact and lucid language precisely what Camus said and how he said it, thus giving this haunting novel a new life for generations to come.
Review:
"Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service. The Stranger is now a different and better novel for its American readers; it is now our classic as well as France's." Chicago Sun-Times
Review:
“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
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Synopsis:
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.
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.
From the Hardcover edition.
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trublubabbe, November 12, 2006 (view all comments by trublubabbe)
This was one of the first books I read that started to open my eyes to something beyond conventional theology. It's an easy read with Camus's philosophy of existentialism embedded in it. It was orginially a little hard for me to undestand why the main character was so empathetic towards everything that was happening to him in the book. But after learning about Camus's philosophy on existentialism I read it again and found the book very real to human existence.
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780679720201
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Author:
- Translator:
- Ward, Matthew
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- Literary
- Subject:
- Murder
- Subject:
- Fiction
- Subject:
- Classics
- Subject:
- Novels and novellas
- Subject:
- Continental european fiction (fictional works
- Subject:
- Continental european
- Subject:
- Adventure stories
- Subject:
- Algeria
- Subject:
- Algeria Fiction.
- Edition Description:
- Vintage Intl
- Series:
- Vintage International
- Series Volume:
- v. 136, art. 15
- Publication Date:
- March 1989
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 144
- Dimensions:
- 8.00x5.28x.39 in. .35 lbs.
