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The Stranger
Part 1 Chap 1
" Maman died today. Or
yesterday maybe, I don't know. I got a telegram from the home: "Mother
deceased. Funeral tomorrow. Faithfully yours." That doesn't mean
anything. Maybe it was yesterday."
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
1946
"The man who refuses to justify himself. Other people prefer their
idea of him. He dies, alone in his awareness of what he really is."
Albert Camus
Albert Camus
Albert Camus was born
on November 7, 1913 in Mondovi,
Algeria.
His father was an agricultural worker, and his mother was an illiterate
charwoman.
Albert Camus was
awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957
Albert Camus died Jan.
4, 1960, in a car accident, near Sens,
France
Selected
bibliography :
- L'Envers at l'endroit, 1937 - Betwixt and
Between
- Noces, 1939
- L'Étranger, 1942 - The Stranger
- Le Mythe de Sisyphe, 1942 - The Myth of
Sisyphos
- Caligula, 1945
- La Peste, 1947 - The Plague - Rutto,
- L'Homme révolté, 1951 - The Rebel –
- La Chute, 1956 - The Fall –
- L'éxil et le royaume, 1957 - Exile and the
Kingdom
- Essais, 1965
- Lyrical and Critical Essays, 1968
- Summer, 1968
- Selected Essays and Notebooks, 1970
- La Mort heureuse, 1970 - A Happy Death
- Youthful Writings of Albert Camus, 1976
- Oeuvres complètes, 1983 (9 vols.)
- American Journals, 1987
- Le Premier Homme, 1994 - The First Man
(incomplete)
Related Links:
The
Stranger by Albert Camus, a study by Dr. Michael Delahoyde of
Washington State University
The Stranger by Albert
Camus - Bookrags
 
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