L’étranger
by:
Albert Camus (author)
L'Etranger est un roman d Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la trilogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l absurde » qui d'ecrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienne : l absurde. Cette trilogie comprend également l essai philosophique intitulé Le Mythe de Sisyphe...
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L'Etranger est un roman d Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la trilogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l absurde » qui d'ecrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienne : l absurde. Cette trilogie comprend également l essai philosophique intitulé Le Mythe de Sisyphe ainsi que les deux pièces de théâtre Caligula et Le Malentendu. Le roman a été traduit en quarante langues et une adaptation cinématographique a été réalisée par Luchino Visconti en 1967.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9782070360024 (2070360024)
ASIN: 2070360024
Publish date: March 2nd 2000
Publisher: Folio
Pages no: 186
Edition language: French
Couldn't remember if I read this in one of my undergrad philosophy classes. I hadn't, but now I can say that I have. I'm sure so many people have written about how ~problematic~ this book is, so I won't repeat them. It felt to me like this book conflates existentialism with treating people as dispos...
My first thought, while reading the short, simple, almost choppy, sentences of the earlier chapters, was that it must be a translation issue (it was originally written in French), and that surely a novelist as highly regarded as Albert Camus would write sophisticated, eloquent prose. However, by the...
As a dilettante translator I find this book fascinating, even though I don’t read French. Literary texts are sacred and you cannot alter them; translations on the other hand are a more or less faithful reflection of the original text, but can be altered, changed, or renewed. Did Proust write "Reme...
Detachment. Misunderstood. An outsider. The first time I read Albert Camus's The Outsider (also known as The Stranger for U.S. publication), I was recommended that this was his best work. With over a little 100 over pages, divided into two parts, this is a story of Meursault, a man that doesn't conn...
When I was a lot younger one of my favourite bands was The Cure. I remember sitting in my lounge room with my friends with The Cures greatest hits ablum blaring out and as soon as the tape came to an end I would jump up, and immediately flick it over onto the otherside, and press play before my neig...
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