The Stranger

Author: Albert Camus

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  • : $25.00 AUD
  • : 9780679720201
  • : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
  • : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
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  • : 0.140614
  • : November 2014
  • : 203mm X 127mm X 10mm
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  • : 24.99
  • : December 2017
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  • : Albert Camus
  • : Vintage International Ser.
  • : Paperback
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  • : English
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  • : 144
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Barcode 9780679720201
9780679720201

Description

Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a Frenchman who murders an Arab in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with a clarity almost scientific, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. Possessing both the force of a parable and the excitement of a perfectly executed thriller, The Stranger is the work of one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century.   Translated by Matthew Ward

Reviews

" "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 "From the Hardcover edition."

Author description

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."