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Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

Hardcover • 2016 • English

Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

By Alice Kaplan

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About the book

The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be found in a teen's backpack as in a graduate philosophy seminar. If the twentieth century produced a novel that could be called ubiquitous, The Stranger is it. How did a young man in his twenties who had never written a novel turn out a masterpiece th...Show more

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ISBN

9780226241678

Publisher

University of Chicago Press

Published year

2016

Language

English

Original title

Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

Format

Hardcover

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