Albert Camuss The Stranger

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307827666
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stranger written by Albert Camus and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2012-08-08 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, Camus's masterpiece gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. Behind the intrigue, 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. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Penguin Classics
ISBN 13 : 9780140015188
Total Pages : 119 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Outsider written by Albert Camus and published by Penguin Classics. This book was released on 1946 with total page 119 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fictional story is about a young man who works as a clerk in Algiers. He seems to lack the basic emotions and reactions that re required of him. He observes the facts of life from the ouside and when involved in a violent incident the results in a distrubing trial, he considers his own feelings and the actions of others with a calm and almost ironic truthfulness.

Author : Alice Kaplan
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022624167X
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Looking for The Stranger written by Alice Kaplan and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "A National Book Award-finalist biographer tells the story of how a young man in his 20s who had never written a novel turned out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than 70 years later and is considered a rite of passage for readers around the world, "--NoveList.

Author : Albert Camus
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1681771802
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stranger written by Albert Camus and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2016-06-07 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep.Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will once again blind the calm, reserved Meursault as he walks along a deserted beach a few days later—leading him to commit an irreparable act.This new illustrated edition of Camus's classic novel The Stranger portrays an enigmatic man who commits a senseless crime and then calmly, and apparently indifferently, sits through his trial and hears himself condemned to death.

Author : Kamel Daoud
Publisher : Other Press, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1590517520
Total Pages : 161 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Meursault Investigation written by Kamel Daoud and published by Other Press, LLC. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 “A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus’s The Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims.” —The New Yorker He was the brother of “the Arab” killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling’s memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name—Musa—and describes the events that led to Musa’s casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach. In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his solitude, on his broken heart, on his anger with men desperate for a god, and on his disarray when faced with a country that has so disappointed him. A stranger among his own people, he wants to be granted, finally, the right to die. The Stranger is of course central to Daoud’s story, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice.

Author : Patrick McCarthy
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521539777
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camus: The Stranger written by Patrick McCarthy and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004-01-19 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher Description

Author : Ronald Aronson
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226027968
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Camus and Sartre written by Ronald Aronson and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2004-01-03 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Until now it has been impossible to read the full story of the relationship between Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre. Their dramatic rupture at the height of the Cold War, like that conflict itself, demanded those caught in its wake to take sides rather than to appreciate its tragic complexity. Now, using newly available sources, Ronald Aronson offers the first book-length account of the twentieth century's most famous friendship and its end. Albert Camus and Jean-Paul Sartre first met in 1943, during the German occupation of France. The two became fast friends. Intellectual as well as political allies, they grew famous overnight after Paris was liberated. As playwrights, novelists, philosophers, journalists, and editors, the two seemed to be everywhere and in command of every medium in post-war France. East-West tensions would put a strain on their friendship, however, as they evolved in opposing directions and began to disagree over philosophy, the responsibilities of intellectuals, and what sorts of political changes were necessary or possible. As Camus, then Sartre adopted the mantle of public spokesperson for his side, a historic showdown seemed inevitable. Sartre embraced violence as a path to change and Camus sharply opposed it, leading to a bitter and very public falling out in 1952. They never spoke again, although they continued to disagree, in code, until Camus's death in 1960. In a remarkably nuanced and balanced account, Aronson chronicles this riveting story while demonstrating how Camus and Sartre developed first in connection with and then against each other, each keeping the other in his sights long after their break. Combining biography and intellectual history, philosophical and political passion, Camus and Sartre will fascinate anyone interested in these great writers or the world-historical issues that tore them apart.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Chelsea House
ISBN 13 : 9781604135800
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Albert Camus's The Stranger written by Harold Bloom and published by Chelsea House. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Camus's landmark novel traces the aftermath of a shocking crime and the man whose fate is sealed with one rash and foolhardy act. The Stranger presents readers with a new kind of protagonist, a man unable to transcend the tedium and inherent absurdity of everyday existence in a world indifferent to the struggles and strivings of its human denizens. This addition to the Bloom's Guides series features an annotated bibliography and a listing of works by the author for further reading.

Author : Robert Zaretsky
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674728378
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Life Worth Living written by Robert Zaretsky and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2013-11-07 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring themes that preoccupied Albert Camus--absurdity, silence, revolt, fidelity, and moderation--Robert Zaretsky portrays a moralist who refused to be fooled by the nobler names we assign to our actions, and who pushed himself, and those about him, to challenge the status quo. For Camus, rebellion against injustice is the human condition.

Author : Harlan Coben
Publisher : Dutton
ISBN 13 : 0451414136
Total Pages : 482 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Stranger written by Harlan Coben and published by Dutton. This book was released on 2016-02-09 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Stranger appears out of nowhere, perhaps in a bar, or a parking lot, or at the grocery store. His identity is unknown. His motives are unclear. His information is undeniable. Then he whispers a few words in your ear and disappears, leaving you picking up the pieces of your shattered world." --Amazon.com.