The Stranger

Name: The Stranger
Rating: 4.1 (119 reviews)
ISBN: 9780394447483

by Unknown Author

4.1

(119 ratings)

155 pages1973KnopfISBN 9780394447483

Philosophical NovelsMurderFictionMedicine in LiteratureFrenchNovelas francesasAsesinatoFicciónRelatos de aventurasCritique et interprétationSocial conditionsCamus, Albert, 1913-1960. L'étrangerCriticism and interpretationFrench language materialsAlgeria, fiction Fiction, generalHomicideAdventure storiesAction and adventure fiction Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author)

About this book

*L'Étranger* est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienne : l’absurde. Le roman a été traduit en soixante-huit langues.

Publication Details

Publisher: Knopf
Published: 1973
Pages: 155
ISBN: 9780394447483
Language: en

About Unknown Author

Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"