The Stranger - (Vintage International) by Albert Camus (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>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.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach.</b> <p/>Behind the intrigue, 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. <p/>First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"<i>The Stranger</i> 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<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published <i>The Stranger</i>-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.
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