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With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger --Camus's masterpiece--gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. " 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 First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-100679720200
ISBN-139780679720201
eBay Product ID (ePID)175098
Product Key Features
Book TitleStranger
Number of Pages144 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year1989
TopicPsychological, Classics, Literary
GenreFiction
AuthorAlbert Camus
Book SeriesVintage International, Vintage International Ser.
FormatBook, Trade Paperback, Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.4 in
Item Weight4.8 Oz, 4.6 Oz
Item Length8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
Dewey Edition19
Reviews" 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, "The Strangeris 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 From the Hardcover edition., " 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 From the Hardcover edition., 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, 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, " 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, " 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
Publication Date1989-03-13
Lccn88-040378
Translated byMatthew Ward
Dewey Decimal843/.9/14
Lc Classification NumberPq2605.A3734e813