01127nam a22001697a 4500020001800000082001100018100002900029245001700058250000800075260004200083300002900125490003500154500003400189520066100223650002500884700004800909  a9780679720201  a843.91  aCamus, Albert, 1913-1960  aThe Stranger  a1st  aNew YorkbVintage Internationalc1989  a123 Pages b20x13 cmbPB  aVintage International (Series)  aTranslation of: L'étranger.  aA young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd". Now in a new American translation, the classic has been given new life for generations to come.   aAlgeriaaMurderaMen  aTranslated from the French by Matthew Ward.