Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camuss extraordinary first novel, The Stranger LEtranger, 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 sun-drenched Algerian beach, Camus was exploring what he termed the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.Now, in an illuminating new American translation the only English version available for more than forty years was done by a British translator, the original intent of The Stranger is made more immediate, as Matthew Ward captures in exact and lucid language precisely what Camus said and how he said it, thus giving this haunting novel a new life for generations to come.Albert Camus, son of a working-class family, was born in Algeria in 1913.
