REA's MAXnotes for Albert Camus' "The Stranger"

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Albert Camus is considered as one of the greatest writers and philosophers from France. This Nobel Prize winning writer and journalist contributed greatly to the philosophy known as absurdism. The Rebel is one of his most famous essays. He writes that he devoted his entire life to opposing the phi[...]

Si, pour les lecteurs americains de la litterature francaise de l'apres-guerre, Albert Camus en a ete un des auteurs les plus populaires, il s'est vu trop rapidement marginalise par certains critiques postmodernes, notamment ceux de la mouvance postcoloniale. Ils lui reprochent son attitude pendant [...]

Withheld from publication in France for twenty-nine years after his death, and now in English for the first time, Camus's final journals give us our rawest and most intimate glimpse yet into one of the most important voices of French letters and twentieth-century literature. The first two volumes of[...]

From the best-selling author of "How to Live," a spirited account of one of the twentieth century s major intellectual movements and the revolutionary thinkers who came to shape it
Paris, 1933: three contemporaries meet over apricot cocktails at the Bec-de-Gaz bar on the rue Montparnasse. They [...]

One of France's most high-profile writers, Albert Camus experienced both public adulation and acrimonious rejection in a career cut short by a fatal car accident in 1960. From humble origins in a European family living in colonial Algeria, Camus established himself as a successful novelist, with bes[...]

Set in Camus'' native Algeria, this story cen tres around Meursault. The young French-Algerian leads an ap parently unremarkable bachelor life until his involvment in a violent incident calls into question the fundamental value s of society '[...]