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Book Description
Patrick McCarthy places The Stranger in the context of a French and French-Algerian history and culture, examines the way the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction, and explores the parallels (and more importantly the contrasts) between Camus and Sartre. His account provides a useful compaContinue
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Esse est percipi said on Sep 3, 2011 | Add your feedback
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a reassurance sort of thing
to me, existentialism is all about being absolute honest with oneself and, as a consequence, getting fucked up from time to time, it doesn't matter whether one is an atheist or a mormon.
yet, had our poor meursault has had half the luck that abraham had, then he'd be able to live another twenty ye ... (continue)
toni said on Aug 29, 2011 | Add your feedback
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AlteredSoul said on Nov 3, 2008 | Add your feedback
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Mkoukoumakis said on May 19, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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L’Étranger[The Stranger]
Wonderful book, every time he commits to something new, or his opinion his ideas are not always accepted by society. When he justified his mothers death to him it was it, he felt nothing he couldn't or in some instances did not want to express emotion, for this the father looked at him as if he were ... (continue)
Loveculture20 said on Jun 6, 2010 | Add your feedback
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drian said on Jul 28, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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- English Books
- Paperback 100 Pages
- ISBN-10: 0819121428
- ISBN-13: 9780819121424
- Publisher: University Press of America
- Pub date: Jan 01, 1982
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio CD, School & Library Binding, Unbound and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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Meursault draws the curtain.
It's often quoted the terrible incipit of this novel. I think that the close is by no means inferior to it:
"For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries ... (continue)
It's often quoted the terrible incipit of this novel. I think that the close is by no means inferior to it:
"For everything to be consummated, for me to feel less alone, I had only to wish that there be a large crowd of spectators the day of my execution and that they greet me with cries of hate".
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