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Genre/Form: | Fiction Adventure fiction Romans, nouvelles, etc |
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Material Type: | Fiction |
Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Albert Camus |
ISBN: | 9781517039011 1517039010 |
OCLC Number: | 934527922 |
Notes: | Translation of: L'étranger. |
Description: | 76 pages ; 23 cm |
Contents: | Contents -- Part One -- I-3 -- II-13 -- III-17 --IV-23 -- V -- VI -- Part Two -- I-39 -- II-45 -- III-51 -- IV-61 -- V -- About the author. |
Responsibility: | by Albert Camus. |
Abstract:
The Outsider or The Stranger (French: L'Étranger) is a novel by Albert Camus published in 1942. Its theme and outlook are often cited as exemplars of Camus's philosophy of the absurd and existentialism, though Camus personally rejected the latter label. The titular character is Meursault, an indifferent French Algerian ("a citizen of France domiciled in North Africa, a man of the Mediterranean, an homme du midi yet one who hardly partakes of the traditional Mediterranean culture"), who, after attending his mother's funeral, apathetically kills an Arab man whom he recognises in French Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative view before and after the murder, respectively. In January 1955, Camus wrote: "I summarized The Stranger a long time ago, with a remark I admit was highly paradoxical: 'In our society any man who does not weep at his mother's funeral runs the risk of being sentenced to death.' I only meant that the hero of my book is condemned because he does not play the game.
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