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The Stranger was written in 1942 by Nobel prize-winning Algerian author Albert Camus and has been translated from French. It is hailed as a literary classic and masterpiece of existential philosophy and absurdism.
The story is set in Algiers. It begins with the narrator, a man called Meursault, going to pay his respects to his mother who has just died in a nursing home. In the second half of the book his friend Raymond gets into a fight with some Arabs on the beach. On ...more
The Stranger was written in 1942 by Nobel prize-winning Algerian author Albert Camus and has been translated from French. It is hailed as a literary classic and masterpiece of existential philosophy and absurdism.
The story is set in Algiers. It begins with the narrator, a man called Meursault, going to pay his respects to his mother who has just died in a nursing home. In the second half of the book his friend Raymond gets into a fight with some Arabs on the beach. On ...more
Dec 15, 2014
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4-literature,
2-fiction,
1-classic,
5-nobel,
3-african,
0-ksml-100,
0-is-100,
0-1001,
0-listat,
0-tuhat-vuotta
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A longer review in Finnish: http://lukemattomatlukemattomat.blogs... ...more
A longer review in Finnish: http://lukemattomatlukemattomat.blogs... ...more
Short but painful
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