The stranger
Camus, Albert , 1913-1960
The stranger / Albert Camus ; translated from French by Matthew Ward ; with an introduction by Peter Dunwoodie - New York : A. A. Knopf : distributed by Random House , 1993. - xxxi, 117 p. ; 22 cm. - Everyman's library .
Translation of: L'étranger.
Albert Camuss 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.
Murder----Fiction
Algeria----Fiction
Adventure stories
FIC CAM
The stranger / Albert Camus ; translated from French by Matthew Ward ; with an introduction by Peter Dunwoodie - New York : A. A. Knopf : distributed by Random House , 1993. - xxxi, 117 p. ; 22 cm. - Everyman's library .
Translation of: L'étranger.
Albert Camuss 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.
Murder----Fiction
Algeria----Fiction
Adventure stories
FIC CAM