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The stranger / Albert Camus ; translated from French by Matthew Ward ; with an introduction by Peter Dunwoodie

By:

Camus, Albert, , 1913-1960

Contributor(s):

Ward, Matthew ; tr

Material type: Text

TextSeries: Everyman's libraryPublication details: New York : A. A. Knopf : distributed by Random House , 1993.Description: xxxi, 117 p. ; 22 cmSubject(s):

Genre/Form:

Adventure stories

DDC classification:

FIC CAM

Summary: 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.

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Fiction / Ficción	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	General	FIC CAM (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		057744

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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.

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