| Description |
viii, 109 pages ; 21 cm |
| Series |
Landmarks of world literature |
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Landmarks of world literature.
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| Contents |
Contexts: Biographical sketch -- Historical contexts -- Stranger and the war -- Stranger: Meursault's languages -- Mother unmourned? -- Class and race -- Arab is somehow murdered -- Arab forgotten and a mother appeased -- Meursalt judges the judges -- God is dead and Existentialism is born -- Early Camus and Sarte: Cycle of the absurd -- Different views of freedom -- Why and how we read the Stranger: Contemporaries, precursors and followers -- Suggestions for further reading -- Translations -- Lo Straniero |
| Summary |
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 companion to The Stranger for students and general readers |
| Analysis |
Fiction in French Camus, Albert |
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Fiction in French Camus, Albert Étranger, L' - Critical studies |
| Notes |
Spine title: Camus, The stranger |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 102-106 |
| Subject |
Camus, 1913-1960. Etranger
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Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. Étranger.
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Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. Étranger. English.
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| LC no. |
87027747 |
| ISBN |
0521329582 |
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0521338514 paperback |
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9780521329583 |
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9780521338516 paperback |
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