The stranger / Albert Camus ; translated from the French by Matthew Ward.

By:

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960

Contributor(s):

Ward, Matthew, 1950 or 51-1990

Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: French Publication details: New York, NY : Vintage International, 1989.Edition: 1st Vintage International edDescription: 123 p. ; 21 cmISBN:

0679720200
9780679720201
0881032476
9780881032475

Uniform titles:

Etranger. English

Subject(s):

LOC classification:

PQ2605.A3734 E813 1989

Summary: A 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. In the 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 a new American translation, the classic has been given new life for generations to come.

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Item type	Current library	Shelving location	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Course reserves
Reserve Materials	John Brown University Library	Reserve	PQ2605 .A3734 E813 1989	Available		39524100350564	Integrated Humanities 2

Translation of: L'etranger.

A 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. In the 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 a new American translation, the classic has been given new life for generations to come.