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.”
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
ALbert Camus' classic novel about man's endless search for meaning
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01 January, 1942
About Albert Camus
Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger, now one of the most widely read novels of this century, in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.
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