The Outsider

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The Outsider

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ISBN: 9780141182506
author: Albert Camus / Joseph Laredo
book format: Paperback
publishing house: Penguin Group
publication date: 2006 -1
language: English
number of pages: 119

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Albert Camus / Joseph Laredo   

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'The sky seemed to rip apart from end to end to pour fire down upon me'

Meursault will not conform. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach, his lack of remorse only compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and law.

Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurdity of human life became an existentialist classic. Yet it is also a book filled with quiet joy in the "tender indifference" of the physical world, and Sandra Smith's new translation based on listening to a recording of Camus reading aloud, sensitively renders the subtleties and dreamlike atmosphere of The Outsider .

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