The ultimate masterpiece from Nobel Prize Winner Albert Camus—one of the most engaged and intellectually alert writers of the past century—presented here in stunning hardcover.
Albert Camus's spare, laconic masterpiece about a murder in Algeria is famous for having diagnosed, with an almost scientific clarity, that condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.With the excitement of a perfectly executed thriller and the force of a parable, The Stranger explores what Camus termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd."
Everyman's Library pursues the highest production standards, printing on acid-free cream-colored paper, with full-cloth cases with two-color foil stamping, decorative endpapers, silk ribbon markers, European-style half-round spines, and a full-color illustrated jacket. Contemporary Classics include an introduction, a select bibliography, and a chronology of the author's life and times.
My brother has a real knack for finding books I've never heard of and would probably never have read on my own - and then they turn out being pretty good!
This is an older, award-winning book which is how it ended up on Phil's short list. I can see why it won awards, there's something very mesmerizing by it. The title is interesting because I'm not 100% sure who The Stranger is that it's meant to refer to, but I do think the main character was very strange. It's as if he has no emotion - though that's not exactly accurate. This is such a hard book to explain without telling you what happened. But I will say, it's a very quick read... I READ it (not listened - not even sure if it's available in audio) and it only took me 4 days. If you know me, you know that's super-fast. Many of you would probably put it away in one day lol. I recommend it, because it is super compelling and just different from so much of what I normally read - it was nice to go off the beaten path.
