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The Stranger (Everyman's Library)
 

The Stranger (Everyman's Library (Cloth))

by Albert Camus

(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... (read more)

Top tags: fiction,  existentialism,  philosophy,  classic,  literature (all tags)

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Cathy B
  • Rated 5 stars

“I don't know if I would enjoy this book now, but over forty years ago, the college I was entering asked all entering freshmen to read it. I did with great enthusiasm. When I got to school it seemed that hardly any else had. After one year I dropped out of that school and went to a different school later.”

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Grant S
  • Rated 2 stars

“This book proved that I am not a nihilist.”

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  • Rated 3.97005 stars
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  • Rated 4.576923 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Paul D

    paul d said:

    “I absolutely loved this book, I can really get trapped in existentialism but I try to limit my reading of these authors to maintain a balanced perspective on life. I have always enjoyed books written from the perspective of the main character. This book reminds me of Dostoevsky's "Notes from the underground", although the two are very different they both read like a personal journal.”

    posted Tuesday, August 19 2008
  • Estella

    estella said:

    “It's interesting to note what Conor Cruise O'Brien, an important critic on Camus, says on the presence of Arabs in the text. Although Algeria was populated mostly with the Arabs, they remain unnamed in The Stranger, and are little more than presences. The focus is entirely on the lives of the French characters, who are given names and distinct identities.

    An implicit colonial theme?”

    posted Thursday, June 26 2008
  • frances c

    frances c said:

    “What do you think Meursalt's revelation was?”

    posted Sunday, June 22 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • rj m

    rj m said:

    “What makes this book interesting?”

    posted Friday, June 20 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • vipingoyal

    vipingoyal said:

    “Fiction based on existentialism is my favourite subject,and camus has done it in a splendid way.”

    posted Monday, December 3 2007
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