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Camus: The Stranger (Landmarks of World Literature (New)) [Kindle Edition]

Patrick McCarthy (Author)
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Patrick McCarthy analyzes The Stranger, one of the vital texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature, in the context of French and French-Algerian history and culture. McCarthy examines how the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction and explores parallels and contrasts between Camus's work and that of Jean-Paul Sartre. Providing students with a useful companion to The Stranger, this second edition features a revised guide to further reading and a new chapter on Camus and the Algerian War. First Edition Hb (1988): 0-521-32958-2 First Edition Pb (1988): 0-521-33851-4

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  • Format: Kindle Edition
  • File Size: 1189 KB
  • Print Length: 124 pages
  • Page Numbers Source ISBN: 0521832101
  • Simultaneous Device Usage: Up to 4 simultaneous devices, per publisher limits
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press; 2 edition (25 Mar 1988)
  • Sold by: Amazon Media EU S.à r.l.
  • Language: English
  • ASIN: B001FSK9L6
  • Text-to-Speech: Enabled
  • X-Ray: Not Enabled
  • Average Customer Review: 1.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #207,492 Paid in Kindle Store (See Top 100 Paid in Kindle Store)

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1.0 out of 5 stars Beware, this is not the Stranger, it is just a book about the book 2 Feb 2013
By Martin Cropper
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
There is nothing really in the description to say that this work doesn't include the text of the book itself. There doesn't seem to be an English translation of he Stranger in the Kindle Store at all. Thank goodness for Amazons easy refund policy for Kindle books.
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1.0 out of 5 stars This Kindle edition is by Patrick McCarthy not by Camus 15 Jan 2009
By Susan L. Rubendall - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
The description and customer reviews provided with this Kindle edition refer to Camus's The Stranger not to this book, which is Patrick McCarthy's analysis of The Stranger. I purchased it thinking that McCarthy was the translator. That is not correct. This volume does not contain Camus's book, which is apparently not available for the Kindle.
75 of 81 people found the following review helpful
1.0 out of 5 stars NOT WHAT IT APPEARS TO BE! 2 Jan 2009
By James - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
This book is NOT Camus's "The Stranger"! It is a literary review of the work, and NOT the work itself. If you are looking to read Camus's "The Stranger" DO NOT BUY THIS BOOK! I feel that Amazon should refund/not charge for those who buy this book thinking they are going to read Camus!

NOT CAMUS "THE STRANGER" NOT NOT NOT!
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3.0 out of 5 stars A book about the book 17 Dec 2008
By Lisa Guinn - Published on Amazon.com
Format:Kindle Edition|Amazon Verified Purchase
Stupid me - I thought I was buying a translation of The Stranger. This is an analysis and commentary. Well done, but not what I intended.
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In this itis easy to recognize the figure ofMeursault, who shuns introspection andis devotedto sensuous experience. Equally obviously Camus has deepened the concept of indifference, which in Meursault is an unexplained mixture of inability to feel and protest against inauthentic &quote;
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From his working-class upbringing Camus learned to be similarly suspicious of ideals, to be sceptical of reason and introspection, and to believe that the coherent self and the coherent work of art were fabrications. Along with this went the realization that life was to be lived rather than dreamed about or mulled over. Man existed, so Existentialism maintained, among or against others in a brutal adventure, to which he must by his actions give meaning. &quote;
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