Camus's landmark novel traces the aftermath of a shocking crime and the man whose fate is sealed with one rash and foolhardy act. The Stranger presents readers with a new kind of protagonist, a man unable to transcend the tedium and inherent...
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Camus's landmark novel traces the aftermath of a shocking crime and the man whose fate is sealed with one rash and foolhardy act. The Stranger presents readers with a new kind of protagonist, a man unable to transcend the tedium and inherent absurdity of everyday existence in a world indifferent to the struggles and strivings of its human denizens. This addition to the Bloom's Guides series features an annotated bibliography and a listing of works by the author for further reading
Cover; Contents; Editor's Note; Introduction; The Stranger; Closure and Anticlosure in Camus's L'Étranger: Some Ideological Considerations; Colonialism, Elightenment, Castration: Writing, Narration, and Legibility in L'Étranger; Meursault the Straw Man; Meursault and Narrative; The Cost of Being Ethical: Fiction, Violence, and Altericide; Sartre's Conception of Historiality and Temporality: The Quest for a Motive in Camus' The Stranger and Sartre's Dirty Hands; The Outsider; Meursault's Dinner with Raymond: A Christian Theme in Albert Camus's L'Étranger; Chronology; Contributors; Bibliography
