![]() ![]() In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons to "denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA". He was born in Algeria to a Pied-Noir family, and studied at the University of Algiers from which he graduated in 1936. The Stranger is now a different and better novel for its American readers it is now our classic as well as France's." - Chicago Sun-TimesĪlbert Camus (1913-1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. Born in Algeria in 1913, ALBERT CAMUS published The Strangernow one of the most widely read novels of this centuryin 1942. "Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service. Translated from the French by Matthew Ward An Arab womana nurse, I supposedwas sitting beside the bier she was wearing a blue smock and had a rather gaudy scarf wound round her hair. This haunting novel has been given a new life for generations to come. Albert Camus THE STRANGER was in place, but the screws had been given only a few turns and their nickeled heads stuck out above the wood, which was stained dark walnut. ![]() ![]() Now, in an illuminating new American translation, extraordinary for its exactitude and clarity, the original intent of The Stranger is made more immediate. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd." ![]() Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's first novel, The Stranger, has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |