The Stranger Introduction by Keith Gore

<b>The masterpiece of Nobel Prize winner Albert Camus, now in a striking American English translation, <i>The Stranger </i>remains vital for its unsettling insights into the impossibility of moral certainty in the face of violence.</b><br><br><b>“Matthew Ward has done Camus and us a great service. <i>The Stranger </i>is now a different and better novel for its American readers; it is now our classic as well as France’s.”—<i>Chicago Sun-Times</i></b><br><br>Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus’s first novel, <i>The Stranger </i>(L’etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through this story of an ordinary man who unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on a sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed “the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.”<br><br>Now, in this illuminating translation, extraordinary for its exactitude and clarity, the original intent of <i>The Stranger </i>is made more immediate. This haunting novel has been given a new life for generations to come.