L'etranger
by Albert Camus
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A 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."
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Philosophical Novels, Murder, Fiction, Medicine in Literature, French, Novelas francesas, Asesinato, Ficción, Relatos de aventuras, Critique et interprétation, Social conditions, Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. L'étranger, Criticism and interpretation, French language materials, Algeria, fiction, Fiction, general, Homicide, Adventure stories, Action and adventure fiction, Continental european fiction (fictional works by one author), Trials (Murder), Young men, History, Fictional Works Publication Type, Nobel Prize for Literature laureate, Literary, Translations into English, Psychological, Fictional Works [Publication Type], Fictional Works, Classics, French fiction, Fiction, psychological, Large type books, Argelia, Novela, Relatos de aventura, Social Marginality, Romance literature, Death, Happiness, Life, French language, Murder in fiction, Algeria in fiction, Angestellter, Mord, Todesstrafe, Étranger (Camus, Albert), Comics & graphic novels, literary, Novela francesa, Français, Romans, nouvelles, England, fiction, French Philosophy, Murder--fiction, World literature, Fiction subjects, Peoples & cultures - fiction, Translations into PersianPlaces
Algeria, North Africa, New Mexico (United States, 1881)Times
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L'Étranger est le premier roman publié d’Albert Camus, paru en 1942. Il prend place dans la tétralogie que Camus nommera « cycle de l’absurde » qui décrit les fondements de la philosophie camusienne : l’absurde. Le roman a été traduit en soixante-huit langues.
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