The outsider / Albert Camus ; translated by Sandra Smith.

By: Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 [author.]Contributor(s): Smith, Sandra, 1949- [translator.]Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Publisher: London : Penguin Books, 2013Copyright date: ©1942Edition: New editionDescription: 110 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780141198064; 0141198060Uniform titles: Étranger. English Subject(s): French -- Algeria -- Fiction | Marginality, Social -- Fiction | French | Marginality, Social | Algeria | French -- Algeria -- Fiction | Marginality, Social -- FictionGenre/Form: Fiction.DDC classification: 843.912 LOC classification: PQ2605.A3734 | C368 2013Other classification: I565.45 Summary: '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.
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Translated from the French.

'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.

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