The stranger

Format:

Book (regular print)

Title:

The stranger

Uniform Title:

Étranger. English

Author:

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960, author.

ISBN:

9780394533056

Publication:

New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1988.

Physical Description:

vii, 123 pages ; 20 cm

General Note:

Translation of: L'Étranger.

Contents:

Introduction -- Select bibliography -- Chronology -- Translator's note -- Stranger -- Part one -- Part two.

Summary:

A brilliant, much-needed new translation of the Albert Camus novel which is more faithful to the original French.

Subject(s):

Geographic Term:

Genre:

Action and adventure fiction

Fiction

Adventure fiction.

Action and adventure fiction.

Added Author:

Ward, Matthew,

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Summary

An ordinary man having carved out a simple life for himself in Algiers commits a murder and goes on trial for a pointless crime."

Author Notes

Born in 1913 in Algeria, Albert Camus was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was deeply affected by the plight of the French during the Nazi occupation of World War II, who were subject to the military's arbitrary whims. He explored the existential human condition in such works as L'Etranger (The Outsider, 1942) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942), which propagated the philosophical notion of the "absurd" that was being given dramatic expression by other Theatre of the Absurd dramatists of the 1950s and 1960s.

Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Library Journal Review

The new translation of Camus's classic is a cultural event; the translation of Cocteau's diary is a literary event. Both translations are superb, but Ward's will affect a naturalized narrative, while Browner's will strengthen Cocteau's reemerging critical standing. Since 1946 untold thousands of American students have read a broadly interpretative, albeit beautifully crafted British Stranger . Such readers have closed Part I on ``door of undoing'' and Part II on ``howls of execration.'' Now with the domestications pruned away from the text, students will be as close to the original as another language will allow: ``door of unhappiness'' and ``cries of hate.'' Browner has no need to ``write-over'' another translation. With Cocteau's reputation chiefly as a cineaste until recently, he has been read in French or not at all. Further, the essay puts a translator under less pressure to normalize for readers' expectations. Both translations show the current trend to stay closer to the original. Marilyn Gaddis Rose, SUNY at Binghamton (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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Part One

p. 1

p. 22

III

p. 30

p. 42

p. 50

p. 59

Part Two

p. 77

p. 89

III

p. 102

p. 123

p. 135

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