Folio Fiction Discussion Group: The Stranger by Albert Camus
Wed, Mar 13
|Online via Zoom
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Mar 13, 2024, 4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Online via Zoom
About the Event
Folio's Fiction book discussion group features a list of classic fiction, curated and led by Folio Librarian Lillian Dabney.
Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed "the nakedness of man faced with the absurd" and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life.
"The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward's translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus's stoical anti-hero and devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity." --from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie. First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.
Born in Algeria in 1913, Albert Camus published The Stranger-now one of the most widely read novels of this century-in 1942. Celebrated in intellectual circles, Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. On January 4, 1960, he was killed in a car accident.
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