Camus(Landmarks of World Literature Series): The Stranger: A Student Guide
Patrick McCarthy analyzes The Stranger, one of the vital texts of existentialism and twentieth-century literature, in the context of French and French-Algerian history and culture. McCarthy examines how the work undermines traditional concepts of fiction and explores parallels and contrasts between Camus's work and that of Jean-Paul Sartre. Providing students with a useful companion to The Stranger, this second edition features a revised guide to further reading and a new chapter on Camus and...
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This handy guide to Albert Camus' The Stranger is essential reading for students.
PrefaceviiChronologyix1Contexts1Biographical sketch1Historical contexts5The Stranger and the war122The Stranger15Meursault's languages15A mother unmourned?32Class and race41An Arab is somehow murdered49An Arab forgotten and a mother appeased57Meursalt judges the judges62God is dead and Existentialism is born723Early Camus and Sarte79The cycle of the absurd79Different views of freedom874Why and how we read The Stranger95Contemporaries, precursors and followers95Suggestions for further reading102Translations106Lo Straniero108
