With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger—Camus's masterpiece—gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward.
Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.
“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
CONTRIBUTORS: Albert Camus
EAN: 9780679720201
COUNTRY: United States
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WEIGHT: 136 g
HEIGHT: 203 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Random House USA Inc
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GENRE: FICTION / Classics, FICTION / Literary, FICTION / Psychological
WIDTH: 132 cm
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Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary
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