The Stranger - Albert Camus, Random House USA Inc

With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger--Camus's masterpiece--gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie, translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed &quot,the nakedness of man faced with the absurd&quot, and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. &quot,The Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward's translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus's stoical anti-hero and ­devious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity.&quot, -from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie First published in 1946, now in translation by Matthew Ward.