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# Read * Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic by Alice Kaplan ↠ eBook or Kindle ePUB. Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic It’s the rare novel that’s as at likely to be found in a teen’s backpack as in a graduate philosophy seminar. Born in poverty in colonial Algeria, Camus started out as a journalist covering the criminal courts. The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. The initial critical reception of The Stranger was mixed, and it wasn’t until after liberation that The Stranger began its meteoric rise. No reader of Camus wi
| Title | : | Looking for The Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.76 (628 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 022624167X |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-01-27 |
| Language | : | English |
It’s the rare novel that’s as at likely to be found in a teen’s backpack as in a graduate philosophy seminar. Born in poverty in colonial Algeria, Camus started out as a journalist covering the criminal courts. The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. The initial critical reception of The Stranger was mixed, and it wasn’t until after liberation that The Stranger began its meteoric rise. No reader of Camus will want to miss this brilliant exploration. Yet the book did appear, thanks in part to a resourceful publisher, Gaston Gallimard, who was undeterred by paper shortages and Nazi censorship. Even
"Cultural and personal influences that contributed to THE STRANGER" according to Ethan Cooper. In her prologue, Yale professor Alice Kaplan identifies her purpose in writing LOOKING FOR THE STRANGER: “By concentrating on themes and theories… critics have taken the very existence of 'The Stranger' for granted. Biographies have… touched on Camus’s situation while writing 'The Stranger', but their focus is the man not his book… But no one has told the story of exactly how Camus created
Kaplan has hung warm flesh on its steely bones.". Kaplan goes a step further and looks for the identity of the Arab involved in the real-life altercation that inspired the novel's pivotal scene. In an epilogue, Ms. Reading The Stranger is a bracing but somewhat bloodless experience. "To this new project, Kaplan brings equally honed skills as a historian, literary critic, and biographer. What she learns about him is fascinating, and how she writes about parallels between him and Camus is a lovely example of her own imaginative powers and stylish prose. Ms
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