Focusing most of his philosophy around existential questions, albert camus addressed the absurdity and inevitable ending of life in his several novels, short stories, plays, and essays. The stranger, enigmatic first novel by albert camus, published in french as letranger in 1942. Wiley also publishes its books in a variety of electronic formats. The outwardly simple narrative of an office clerk who kills an arab, a cause du soleil, and finds himself condemned to death for moral insensibility becomes, in camus s hands, a powerful image of modern mans impatience before christian philosophy and conventional social and sexual values.
The title character of the stranger is meursault, a frenchman who lives in algiers a piednoir. Andre maurois, and albert camus are represented along. Pierre camus, fait prisonnier par les allemands en 1915 et futur directeur du conservatoire. Its theme and outlook are often cited as examples of camus s philosophy, absurdism coupled with that of existentialism, though camus personally rejected the latter label. Jans carlo, flute traversiere, piccolo, direction dorchestre. Also, the formatting seems off and occasionally letters are randomly capitalized. Georges chapel roger judd jonathan reeswilliams william ballet arr. Rejecting nihilism, camus devoted his life to embracing the meaninglessness of mans existence, delving deeply into the concept of individual freedom. The title character is meursault, an indifferent french algerian described as a citizen of france domiciled in north africa, a man of. Albert camus was a piednoir, a french algerian of european descent. During the restoration, the huge popularity of the historical. Provided to youtube by the orchard enterprises lute book lullaby the choir of st. L etranger itself is wonderful, but if staring at horrible font will bother you, id encourage you to pick up another version.
A dictionary of literary terms and literary theory wiley online. Letranger by albert camus, 9782070360024, available at book depository with free delivery worldwide. As an uncanny preecho of camuss letranger, bizets anxiety about his mother. He was their most famous writer, and would win the nobel prize for literature in 1957. It was published as the outsider in england and as the stranger in the united states plot summary.
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