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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 ...
Matthew Ward (1950/1951 – June 23, 1990) was an American English/French translator noted for his 1989 rendition of Albert Camus' The Stranger. He made several important alterations from the more British-toned translation (and previously only English edition) by Stuart Gilbert. Most notably he altered the quite well known opening line "Mother ...
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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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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).
The daughter of a French retiree on trial for enlisting strangers to rape his drugged wife Friday described him as "likely one of the worst sexual criminals in past 20 years.". Dominique Pelicot ...