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Book

Albert Camus's The stranger

Call Number

  • 843 C211.3BL (CEN)

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Publication Information

New York : Bloom's Literary Criticism, c2008.

Physical Description

93 p. ; 23 cm.

Contents

  • Jean-Paul Sartre on Camus's portrayal of the absurd
  • R.W.B. Lewis on Camus's style and critique of tragedy
  • Alain Robbe-Grillet points to metaphors and anthropomorphism
  • Patrick Henry compares work of Camus and Voltaire
  • Brian T. Fitch on interpretation and misinterpretation
  • Patrick McCarthy on the mother image
  • John Fletcher explains Camus's manipulation of the reader
  • Jack Murray on the novel's apparent coherence
  • Avi Sagi on the novel's real concern: social alienation
  • Robert C. Solomon on Meursault's lack of honesty.

Subjects

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Harold Bloom