Penguin modern classics The Outsider
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
0141198060
ISBN 13
9780141198064
Category
830-899 Other Literature
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Publication Year
2013
Publisher
Pages
128
Subject
French -- Algeria -- Fiction. Marginality, Social -- Fiction. French.
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Abstract
Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.
Description
'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me' Meursault will not conform. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach, his lack of remorse only compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurdity of human life became a classic. Yet it is also a book filled with quiet joy in the physical world, and this new translation sensitively renders the subtleties and dreamlike atmosphere of The Outsider.
Biblio Notes
Genre/Form: Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Albert Camus; Sandra Smith
ISBN: 9780141198064 0141198060
OCLC Number: 865492347
Notes: Translated from the French.
Description: 110 pages ; 20 cm
Series Title: Penguin modern classics
Other Titles: Étranger.
Responsibility: Albert Camus ; translated by Sandra Smith.
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Albert Camus; Sandra Smith
ISBN: 9780141198064 0141198060
OCLC Number: 865492347
Notes: Translated from the French.
Description: 110 pages ; 20 cm
Series Title: Penguin modern classics
Other Titles: Étranger.
Responsibility: Albert Camus ; translated by Sandra Smith.
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