Le Monde ranked The Stranger as number one on its 100 Books of the 20th Century.
Ĭonsidered a classic of 20th-century literature, The Stranger has received critical acclaim for Camus' philosophical outlook, absurdism, syntactic structure, and existentialism (despite Camus' rejection of the label), particularly within its final chapter. The Stranger gained popularity among anti-Nazi circles following its focus in Jean-Paul Sartre's 1947 article "Explication de L'Étranger ". It began being published in English from 1946, first in the United Kingdom, where its title was changed to avoid confusion with the translation of Maria Kuncewiczowa's novel of the same name after being published in the United States, the novella retained its original name, and the British-American difference in titles has persisted in subsequent editions. Published during the Nazi occupation of France, it went on sale without censorship or omission by the Propaganda-Staffel. The original French-language first edition of the novella was published on May 19, 1942, by Gallimard, under its original title it appeared in bookstores from that June but was restricted to an initial 4,400 copies, so few that it could not be a bestseller.
He died in an automobile accident at the age of 46.Camus completed the initial manuscript by May 1941, with revisions were suggested by André Malraux, Jean Paulhan, and Raymond Queneau and later adopted in the final version. Because of his formidable impact on the world of letters in the second half of the twentieth century, he was awarded the prestigious bel Prize in 1957 for illuminating “the problems of the human conscience.” He was only 44 years old at the time. His philosophical books The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), and The Rebel (1951) proved him to be a forceful thinker. He also became active in the resistance against the colonial French government and served as editor-in-chief of the newspaper Combat from 1944 to 1947.Ĭamus established himself as a fiction writer with his three novels: The Stranger (1942), The Plague (1947), and Although not trained as a philosopher, he contributed towards the avant-garde twentieth-century philosophical ideas of Absurdism in the form of essays, novels, reviews and articles. He was born in Mondovi, French Algeria on vember 7, 1913. Albert Camus was a French-Algerian writer, philosopher and journalist.
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