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Looking for The stranger : Albert Camus and the life of a literary classic / Alice Kaplan.

by Kaplan, Alice Yaeger.

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University of Chicago Press, 2016.

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960.

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960. Étranger. English -- Analysis, appreciation.

Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 -- Appreciation.

Novelists, French -- 20th century -- Biography.

Authors, French -- 20th century -- Biography.

Nobel Prize winners -- France -- Biography.

9780226241678 (hc.)

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Albert Camus and the life of a literary classic

289 p. : maps ; cm.

Includes bibliographical references, Internet addresses and index.

"The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus's novel has sold more than six million copies. 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? Alice Kaplan tells that story and reveals Camus's achievement to have been even more impressive and more unlikely than even his most devoted readers knew. 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 development 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 finally hit upon the unforgettable first-person voice that enabled him to break through. 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. It wasn't until after liberation that The Stranger began its meteoric rise, becoming a critical and commercial success. Camus found himself one of the most famous writers in the world. His seemingly modest tale of alienation was being seen for what it really was: a powerful parable of the absurd, an existentialist masterpiece. Alice Kaplan is the author of Dreaming in French, The Interpreter, French Lessons and The Collaborator"--Provided by publisher.

The Nobel Prize in Literature 1957 was awarded to Albert Camus "for his important literary production, which with clear-sighted earnestness illuminates the problems of the human conscience in our times".

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