Stranger, The

This volume offers original contributions, while also reprinting a sampling of some of the more trenchant earlier essays about the man and his work. Essays discuss the reception of Camus's oeuvre, themes that have inspired discussion, points of continuing controversy, and Camus's own reaction to his hostile critics. Also discussed is his most famous work, The Stranger.

Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies.

Few figures of twentieth-century French culture carry such an air of romance and intrigue as Albert Camus.

Dying at the young age of 46, Albert Camus nevertheless seems to have completed a life's work. The Myth of Sisyphus critics suggest, is his one work that may transcend being a period piece. Learn more about Camus with this text, which includes an