The Stranger - Couverture souple

Camus, Albert

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0075478129 ISBN 13 : 9780075478126

Editeur : McGraw-Hill, 1989

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

The Stranger by Albert Camus is a very short novel that can easily be read in an afternoon. However, digesting the content will certainly take much longer as this little novel raises serious questions about morality, society, justice, religion, and individuality. The Stranger is recounted in first person is a very direct, no nonsense style. The narrator is named Meursault and the story opens with him reading a telegram informing him of his mother’s death. Meusault is not overly shocked as his mother is old and has been living in a home for the elderly. Outwardly, he doesn’t become overcome with grief. At the funeral he doesn’t cry as he is actually more overcome with heat due to the hot Algerian summer than with grief. The funeral is followed by more everyday events and an ill-fated growing friendship with a local pimp. Somehow the forces of nature and man conspire to work on Meursault in a manner that causes a sudden outburst of violence that shatters his world.

Présentation de l'éditeur :

(Book Jacket Status: Jacketed)

Albert Camus’s 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.

Translated by Matthew Ward

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: McGraw-Hill
• Date d'édition: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0075478129
• ISBN 13: 9780075478126
• Reliure: Broché