Distributed in Canada by Random. House of Canada Limited, Toronto. MOTHER died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure. The telegram from the Home says: YOUR MOTHER PASSED AWAY. …

Published in 1942, Albert Camus' *The Stranger* is a seminal work of twentieth-century literature, celebrated for its profound exploration of the human condition.

The Stranger was published in 1942 by Albert Camus, in French, as L'Étranger. The story revolves around a man named Meursault who, in a heated moment, shoots and kills another man on a beach.

The language of The Stranger, which is suspicious of abstractions, exaggerations and itself, was a welcome antidote to the flowery rhetoric of the Vichy government, as well as a recognizable …

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When the villagers came out of the church, the man had gone. They had all liked him.

Born in French Algeria in 1913. One of the fathers of Absurdism, a branch of philosophy. Some of his famous work include L’etranger, Le Mythe de Sisyphe, and La Peste. Died in 1960. Meursault’s …