Outsider (New Windmills)
by Albert Camus
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- used, very good
- ISBN 10
- 0435121405
- ISBN 13
- 9780435121402
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About This Item
1974 reprint. Brown cloth boards. 127pp.
'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.'
In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. 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 near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal.
Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd, and revolting against the injustice of society, depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world.
Sandra Smith's translation, based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954, sensitively renders the subtleties and dream-like atmosphere of L'Étranger.
Albert Camus (1913-1960), French novelist, essayist and playwright, is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. His most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Plague (1947), The Just (1949), The Rebel (1951) and The Fall (1956). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, and his last novel, The First Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared in print for the first time in 1994, and was published in English soon after by Hamish Hamilton.
Sandra Smith was born and raised in New York City and is a Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, where she teaches French Literature and Language. She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize, as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.
Synopsis
Published in 1942, The Outsider was Camus' first novel. The main character is Meursault, who holds no real opinion, nor does anything seem to effect him. From the dark horizon of my future a sort of slow, persistent breeze had been blowing toward me, all my life long, from the years that were to come. and on its way that breeze had leveled out all the ideas that people tried to foist on me in the equally unreal years i then was living through."
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- Seller's Inventory #
- 20978
- Title
- Outsider (New Windmills)
- Author
- Albert Camus
- Book Condition
- used, very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0435121405
- ISBN 13
- 9780435121402
- Publisher
- Heinemann Educational Publishers
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1974
- Pages
- 127
- Keywords
- 2nd world war
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- Fiction;
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