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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's thoughts on the Absurd begin with his first cycle of books and the literary essay The Myth of Sisyphus, his major work on the subject. In 1942, he published the story of a man living an absurd life in The Stranger .
Notebooks 1935–1942 (1963) is the first of three translated post-mortem editions of the notebooks of Albert Camus. It was translated and edited by Philip Thody, and published by Knopf, New York. The notebooks include aphorisms and other ideas relating to Camus' literary work, and examine themes such as humanism and revolt.
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 ...
Notebooks 1942–1951 is a book by Albert Camus, published by Knopf in 1965.The book was published after the death of the Nobel awarded author, who died in 1960. The book contains the notes of Camus for the period 1942 to 1951. 2 more volumes of Camus notes were also published (Notebooks 1935–1942 and Notebooks 1951–1959).
The Stranger (Camus novel), a 1942 novella by Albert Camus; The Stranger (Coben novel), a 2015 novel by Harlan Coben; The Stranger (Applegate novel), a 1997 book in the Animorphs series; The Stranger (Van Allsburg book), a 1986 book by Chris Van Allsburg; The Stranger (short story collection), a 1987 book by Gordon R. Dickson "The Stranger ...
"Active and highly creative, Camus is in the centre of interest in the literary world, even outside of France. Inspired by an authentic moral engagement, he devotes himself with all his being to the great fundamental questions of life, and certainly this aspiration corresponds to the idealistic end for which the Nobel Prize was established.
The play "is a highly subjective presentation by Camus of the human condition as he saw it in the desperate circumstances of 1942-43". [2] It reflects several aspects of Camus's life: he had left Algeria, to which he was deeply attached, leaving his second wife and friends behind; he was depressed with tuberculosis; as well as living under ...