The Stranger

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title The Stranger
Authors and Contributors      By (author) Albert Camus
SeriesVintage International
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:144
Dimensions(mm): Height 203,Width 132
Category/GenreModern and contemporary fiction (post c 1945)
ISBN/Barcode 9780679720201
ClassificationsDewey:FIC
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Random House USA Inc
Imprint Vintage Books
Publication Date 13 March 1989
Publication Country United States

Description

Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." First published in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward.

Author Biography

Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger-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.

Reviews

A PARADE BEST BOOK OF ALL TIME "The Stranger 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