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Text will be unmarked and pages crisp. Satisfaction is guaranteed with every order. Buy It Now. Add to cart. About this product Product Information The Stranger is a rite of The Stranger Meursault Is Condemned And Killing for readers around the world. Since its publication in France inCamus's novel has been translated Condemhed 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 twenties who had never written a novel turn out a masterpiece that still grips readers more than seventy years later?
In the process, she reveals Camus's achievement to have been even more impressive--and more unlikely--than even his most devoted readers knew.
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Born in poverty in colonial Algeria, Camus started out as a journalist covering the criminal courts. The murder trials he attended, Kaplan shows, would be a major influence on the Killong and themes of The Stranger. 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 Strznger hit upon the unforgettable first-person voice that enabled him to break through and complete The Stranger. Even then, the book's publication was far from certain. France was straining under German occupation, Camus's closest mentor was unsure of the book's merit, and Camus himself was suffering from near-fatal tuberculosis. Yet the book did appear, thanks in part to a resourceful publisher, Gaston Gallimard, who was undeterred by paper shortages and Nazi censorship.
The initial critical reception of The Stranger was mixed, and it wasn't until after liberation that The Stranger began its meteoric rise. As France and the rest of the world began to move out of the shadow of war, Kaplan shows, Camus's book-- with the help of an aggressive marketing campaign by Knopf for their publication of the first English translation--became a critical and commercial success, and Camus found himself one of the most famous writers in the world. Suddenly, his seemingly modest tale of alienation was being The Stranger Meursault Is Condemned And Killing for what it really was: a powerful parable of the absurd, an existentialist masterpiece.
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Few books inspire devotion and excitement the way The Stranger does. And it couldn't have a better biographer than Alice Kaplan, whose books about twentieth-century French culture and history have won her legions of fans. No reader of Camus will want to miss this brilliant exploration. Additional Product Features Dewey Edition. Alice Kaplan has written the life story of one of the essential and enduring books of the twentieth century, and with it she gives us a page-turner of scholarship, a work of narrative power and historical resonance, right up to the present moment. Kaplan is a superb storyteller. One of the best chapters of the book, 'Gallimard's War', reads like a philosophical thriller with its Nazi censors, misunderstandings, and moral conundrums.
Yet, through all this she never loses focus on the novel to which her book is dedicated.
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Equally engaging are her chapters documenting the initial reception of the book in both the French- and English-speaking world. Surely destined to become the quintessential companion to Camus's most enduring novel. A fascinating mix of straight fact--she names the bells that inspired the one that rings in the novel's verdict scene--and astute psychological inference.]
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