The stranger - Softcover

Camus, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1978188285 ISBN 13: 9781978188280

Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub, 2017

Synopsis

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."

About this title

About the Author

ALBERT CAMUS was born in Mondovi, Algeria, in 1913. After winning a degree in philosophy, he worked at various jobs, ending up in journalism. In the thirties he ran a theatrical company, and during the war was active in the French Resistance, editing an important underground paper, Combat. Among his major works are four widely praised works of fiction, The Stranger (1946), The Plague (1948), The Fall (1957), and Exile and the Kingdom (1958); a volume of plays, Caligula and Three Other Plays (1958); and two books of philosophical essays, The Rebel (1954) and The Myth of Sisyphus (1955), both of which are available in the Vintage series. Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was killed in an automobile accident on January 4, 1960.

Edition details

• Publisher: Createspace Independent Pub
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1978188285
• ISBN 13: 9781978188280
• Binding: Tapa blanda
• Number of pages: 148