The Stranger
The Stranger
by Albert Camus
Original title: L’étranger · First published 1942 · 143 pages · about 2 hours to read
Won: Le Monde's 100 Books of the Century
On these lists: #5 Books like Crime and Punishment · #2 French classics everyone should read
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About this book
*The Stranger* is Albert Camus's first published novel, released in 1942. It belongs to the four-part sequence Camus called the "cycle of the absurd," which lays out the foundations of his philosophy: the absurd. The novel has been translated into sixty-eight languages.
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