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A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably de...
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Vintage International,
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| Publisher Address: | New York : |
| Publication Dates: | 1989. |
| Literature type: | Book |
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English French |
| Edition: | 1st Vintage International ed. |
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Vintage international
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| Summary: |
A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd". Now in a new American translation, the classic has been given new life for generations to come. |
| Item Description: | Translation of: L'étranger. |
| Carrier Form: | 123 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780679720201 9780394533056 0394533054 9780812416695 0812416694 9780881032475 0881032476 |
| Index Number: | PQ2605 |
| CLC: | I565.45 |
| Call Number: | I565.45/C211-15 |