![]() ![]() “The fascinating story behind Albert Camus’ coldblooded masterpiece. Kaplan tells this story with great verve and insight, all the while preserving the mystery of its creation and elusiveness of its meaning.” -Los Angeles Review of Books “For American readers, few French novels are better known, and few scholars are better qualified than Kaplan to reintroduce us to it. Kaplan has hung warm flesh on its steely bones.” -The New York Times Reading The Stranger is a bracing but somewhat bloodless experience. “To this new project, Kaplan brings equally honed skills as a historian, literary critic, and biographer. In the process, she reveals Camus’ achievement to have been even more impressive-and more unlikely-than even his most devoted readers knew. ![]() How did a young man in his twenties who had never written a novel turn out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than seventy years later? With Looking for The Stranger, Alice Kaplan tells that story. If the twentieth century produced a novel that could be called ubiquitous, The Stranger is it. It’s the rare novel that’s as likely to be found in a teen’s backpack as in a graduate philosophy seminar. ![]() ![]() Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus’s novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. A literary exploration that is “surely destined to become the quintessential companion to Camus’s most enduring novel” (PopMatters). ![]()
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