The Stranger

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Author
Albert Camus
Publisher
Random House (US)
Genre
Fiction
Released
01 January, 1942

The Stranger

Albert Camus

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    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."
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    About the author

    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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