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Considered a classic of 20th-century literature, The Stranger has received critical acclaim for Camus's philosophical outlook, absurdism, syntactic structure, and existentialism (despite Camus's rejection of the label), particularly within its final chapter. [3] Le Monde ranked The Stranger as number one on its 100 Books of the 20th Century. [4]
Camus and Sartre: The Story of a Friendship and the Quarrel that Ended it. University of Chicago Press. ISBN 978-0-22602-796-8. Aronson, Ronald (2017). "Albert Camus". In Edward N. Zalta (ed.). The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Bernstein, Richard (19 December 1997). "BOOKS OF THE TIMES; Camus as a Principled Rebel Among Poseurs". The New ...
Camus was a friend of Sartre, until their falling-out, and wrote several works with existential themes including The Rebel, Summer in Algiers, The Myth of Sisyphus, and The Stranger, the latter being "considered—to what would have been Camus's irritation—the exemplary existentialist novel." [93] Camus, like many others, rejected the ...
A Happy Death was Camus' first novel and was clearly the precursor to his most famous work, The Stranger, published in 1942. The main character in A Happy Death is named "Patrice Mersault", similar to The Stranger' s "Meursault"; both are French Algerian clerks who kill another man.
Camus made his debut as a writer in 1937, but his breakthrough came with the novel L’étranger ("The Stranger"), published in 1942. It concerns the absurdity of life, a theme he returns to in other books, including his philosophical work Le mythe de Sisyphe ("The Myth of Sisyphus", 1942).
Sartre and Camus expanded on the topic of absurdism. Camus wrote further works, such as The Stranger, Caligula, The Plague, The Fall and The Rebel. [6] Other figures include Martin Heidegger and Jacques Derrida. In addition, Ernest Becker's Pulitzer Prize-winning life's work The Denial of Death is a collection of thoughts on existential nihilism.
Gilbert was the first English translator of two novels by Albert Camus, The Stranger [9] [10] [11] (translation published 1946 [12]) and The Plague (translation published 1948). [13] [14] [15] One of Gilbert's major projects was the translation from French of Roger Martin du Gard's novel sequence Les Thibault.
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