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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 ...
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Camus sees Sisyphus as the absurd hero who lives life to the fullest, hates death, and is condemned to a meaningless task. [4] Camus presents Sisyphus's ceaseless and pointless toil as a metaphor for modern lives spent working at futile jobs in factories and offices. "The workman of today works every day in his life at the same tasks, and this ...
The play was later the subject of numerous revisions. It is part of what Camus called the "Cycle of the Absurd", together with the novel The Stranger (1942) and the essay The Myth of Sisyphus (1942). [2] A number of critics have reported the piece to be existentialist, though Camus always denied belonging to this philosophy. [3]
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.
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).