A young Algerian, Meursault, afflicted with a sort of aimless inertia, becomes embroiled in the petty intrigues of a local pimp and, somewhat inexplicably, ends up killing a man. Once he's imprisoned and eventually brought to trial, his crime, it becomes apparent, is not so much the arguably defensible murder he has committed as it is his deficient character. In the story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sun-drenched...

These six stories, written at the height of Camus' artistic powers, all depict people at painful odds with the world around them. A wife can only surrender to a desert night by betraying her husband. An artist struggles to honor his own aspirations as well as society's expectations of him. A missionary brutally converted to the worship of a tribal fetish is left with but an echo of his identity. Whether set in North Africa, Paris, or Brazil, these...

Elegantly styled, Camus' profoundly disturbing novel of a Parisian lawyer's confessions is a searing study of modern amorality.

Influenced by works such as "Don Juan" and the novels of Kafka, these essays begin with a meditation on suicide -- the question of living or not living in a universe devoid of order or meaning. With lyric eloquence, Albert Camus brilliantly presents a crucial exposition of existentialist thought. -- Text refers to other edition.

"Quand la sonnerie a encore retenti, que la porte du box s'est ouverte, c'est le silence de la salle qui est monté vers moi, le silence, et cette singulière sensation que j'ai eue lorsque j'ai constaté que le jeune journaliste avait détourné les yeux. Je n'ai pas regardé du côté de Marie. Je n'en ai pas eu le temps parce que le président m'a dit dans une forme bizarre que j'aurais la tête tranchée sur une place publique au nom du peuple...

Cuando Albert Camus ganó en 1957 el Premio Nobel, la citación de la Academia al concederlo dejó constancia de una obra que se destacaba por "el profundo análisis del espíritu y la intensidad artística con que este ha sido interpretado, para mostrar un retrato de la existencia humana". Un ejemplo de su capacidad narrativa unida a un argumento interesante y lleno de episodios, se encuentra en su novela "El extranjero", obra del absurdo, donde...

"The accounts of the trips Albert Camus made to North America (March to May 1946) and South America (June to August 1949) constitute a real travel book; therefore it seemed more logical to publish them in a separate volume. (editor's note from the French edition)" cited following title page.

This final volume, recorded over the last nine years of his life, takes on the characteristics of a personal diary.