01341nam a22002057a 4500020001800000082001100018100002900029245001700058250000800075260004200083300002900125490003500154500003400189520066100223650002500884700004800909942000700957999001500964952015600979 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. cBK c1022d1022 0010406843_910000000000000_C1721S_19897091051aGPLbGPLcGENd2016-11-22eMSLl7o843.91 C1721S 1989p18248r2025-08-02s2025-07-30w2016-11-22yBK