| Title | : | The Stranger |
|---|---|---|
| Author | : | Albert Camus |
| Release | : | 2021-02-08 |
| Kind | : | ebook |
| Genre | : | Classics, Books, Fiction & Literature, Literary Fiction, Young Adult, Fiction for Young Adults, Favorite Characters for Young Adults, Comparative Literature , Coming of Age Fiction for Young Adults, Historical Fiction for Young Adults, History, European History, Classics for Young Adults, Short Stories, Historical Fiction, Culture, Places & People in Young Adult Fiction |
| Size | : | 835383 |
| The Stranger is a 1942 novella by French author Albert Camus. Its theme and outlook are often cited as examples of Camus' philosophy, absurdism coupled with existentialism, though Camus personally rejected the latter label. The title character is Meursault, an indifferent French Algerian described as "a citizen of France domiciled in North Africa, a man of the Mediterranean, an homme du midi yet one who hardly partakes of the traditional Mediterranean culture." He attends his mother's funeral. Weeks later, he kills an Arab man in French Algiers, who was involved in a conflict with one of Meursault's neighbors. Meursault is tried and sentenced to death. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative view before and after the murder, respectively. 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 English in 1946; now in a new translation by Matthew Ward. |
