Albert Camus
1) The stranger
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English
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The Stranger (French: L'Étranger [l‿e.tʁɑ̃.ʒe]), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus' novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers. The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative before and...
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Publisher
Alianza
Edition
28a. Ed.
Language
Español
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El extranjero es una de las obras más relevantes del escritor francés Albert Camus. Esta obra transcurre en Argelia, a mediados del siglo XX y narra la historia de Meursault -personaje central- quien, pese a cualquier acontecimiento, sea bueno o malo, se muestra como un ser indiferente a la reali-dad por resultarle absurda e inabordable. Para Meursault, el progreso tecnológico le ha privado de la participación en las decisiones colectivas y le...
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Vintage Books
Language
English
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Camus tells the story of Jacques Cormery, a boy who lived a life much like his own. Camus summons up the sights, sounds and textures of a childhood circumscribed by poverty and a fathers death yet redeemed by the austere beauty of Algeria and the boys attachment to his nearly deaf-mute mother. Published thirty-five years after its discovery amid the wreckage of the car accident that killed Camus, The First Man is the brilliant consummation of the...
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English
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"The literary output of Albert Camus was exceptionally concentrated and well organized, so that each part of it throws light on the other parts. . . . Here now, for the first time in a complete English translation, we have Camus' three little volumes of essays, plus a selection of his critical comments on literature and on his own place in it. As might be expected, the main interest of these writings is that they illuminate new facets of his usual...
6) The plague
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Publisher
Recorded Books
Language
English
Description
In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising from the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. And just as mysteriously as it appeared, the rodent problem seems to vanish. Shortly after, however, many local residents experience intense fevers and then perish--victims of the unseen menace of the bubonic plague. And as life in the town comes to a halt, the survivors attempt to come to terms with their own mortality and the...