L Etranger (French Edition) - Softcover

Camus, Albert

Softcover

ISBN 10: 207030602X ISBN 13: 9782070306022

Publisher: Gallimard, 2005

Synopsis

L'Etranger has the force and fascination of myth. The outwardly simple narrative of an office clerk who kills an Arab, 'a cause du soleil', and finds himself condemned to death for moral insensibility becomes, in Camus's hands, a powerful image of modern man's impatience before Christian philosophy and conventional social and sexual values. For this new edition Ray Davison makes use of recent critical analysis of L'Etranger to give a full and concise description of Camus's early philosophy of the Absurd and the ideas and preoccupations from which the novel emerges. Davison also discusses the developing pattern of Camus's notion of the art of the novel, his views on 'classicism', simplicity and ambiguity, his fondness for paradox, and his love of everyday situations which yield to mythical interpretation.

About this title

About the Author:

Albert Camuswas born in Algeria in 1913. During World War II, he joined the Resistance movement in Paris, then became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Combat during the Liberation. A novelist, playwright, and essayist, he is most famous for his novels The Stranger and The Plague. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

Language Notes:

Text: French, English

About this edition

• Publisher: Gallimard
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 207030602X
• ISBN 13: 9782070306022
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• Number of pages: 205