![]() ![]() ![]() She follows Camus to France, and, making deft use of his diaries and letters, re-creates his lonely struggle with the novel in Montmartre, where he finally hit upon the unforgettable first-person voice that enabled him to break through and complete The Stranger. The murder trials he attended, Kaplan shows, would be a major influence on the development and themes of The Stranger. Born in poverty in colonial Algeria, Camus started out as a journalist covering the criminal courts. ![]() ![]() In the process, she reveals Camus’s 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 at 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. ![]()
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