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The Stranger. (Camus novel) The Stranger (French: L'Étranger [letʁɑ̃ʒe], lit. 'The Foreigner'), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus's novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after ...
Albert Camus (/ kæˈmuː / [2] ka-MOO; French: [albɛʁ kamy] ⓘ; 7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, dramatist, journalist, world federalist, [3] and political activist. He was the recipient of the 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44, the second-youngest recipient in history.
The 1957 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded the French writer Albert Camus (1913–1960) "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times." [1] He is the ninth French author to become a recipient of the prize after Catholic novelist François Mauriac in ...
The Myth of Sisyphus (French: Le mythe de Sisyphe) is a 1942 philosophical essay by Albert Camus. Influenced by philosophers such as Søren Kierkegaard, Arthur Schopenhauer, and Friedrich Nietzsche, Camus introduces his philosophy of the absurd. The absurd lies in the juxtaposition between the fundamental human need to attribute meaning to life ...
The Outsider (Camus novel) or The Stranger (L'Étranger), a 1942 novel by Albert Camus; The Outsider (Colin Wilson), a 1956 book by Colin Wilson; The Outsider, a 2018 novel by Stephen King "The Outsider" (short story), a 1926 short story by H. P. Lovecraft; The Outsider (Wright novel), a 1953 novel by Richard Wright
The song's title and lyrics reference Albert Camus's novel The Stranger. Because of the title, the song has drawn controversy for what critics have described as promoting violence against Arabs, which songwriter Robert Smith pinned on the public's lack of knowledge regarding the novel. Shortly after its release, Smith said, "It just happened ...
The Fall (French: La Chute) is a philosophical novel by Albert Camus.First published in 1956, it is his last complete work of fiction. Set in Amsterdam, The Fall consists of a series of dramatic monologues by the self-proclaimed "judge-penitent" Jean-Baptiste Clamence, as he reflects upon his life to a stranger.
Matthew Ward (writer) Matthew Ward (1950/1951 – June 23, 1990) was an American English / French translator noted for his 1989 rendition of Albert Camus ' The Stranger. He made several important alterations from the more British-toned translation (and previously only English edition) by Stuart Gilbert. Most notably he altered the quite well ...