Looking for the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic

by Alice Kaplan

Book Overview

The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It's the rare novel that's as at likely to be found in a teen's backpack as in a graduate philosophy seminar. If the twentieth century produced a novel that could be called ubiquitous, The Stranger is it.

How did a young man in his...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 022624167X
• ISBN13: 9780226241678
• Release Date: September 2016
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.27 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.1"