The Outsider - Softcover

Albert Camus

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ISBN 10: 0140180184 ISBN 13: 9780140180183

Publisher: Penguin Classics, 1983

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The author's first novel, originally published in 1942, centring around a young French-Algerian whose involvement in a violent incident causes him to question the fundamental values of society. In the TWENTIETH CENTURY CLASSICS series.

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Smith's new version ... treats Camus' text with respect, directness and an unexpected delicateness. She reveals, and permits, an original edgy strangeness in the prose itself; she treats it sensually, listening to Camus' original sentence structures and lengths, and to the rhythmic fall of his prose (Ali Smith The Times)

About the Author:

French novelist, essayist, and playwright. Albert Camus (1913-1960) was a representative of non-metropolitan French literature. His origin in Algeria and his experiences there in the thirties were dominating influences in his thought and work. Among his works, The Plague (1947), The Just (1949) The Fall (1956). He was killed in a road accident in 1960. His last novel, The First Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared for the first time in 1994.

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