The Stranger

Since it was first published in English, in 1946, Albert Camus's first novel, "The Stranger" (L'etranger), has had a profound impact on millions of American readers. Through the story of an ordinary man unwittingly gets drawn into a senseless murder on an sundrenched Algerian beach, Camus explored what he termed ''the nakedness of man faced with the absurd.''

Now, in an illuminating new American translation, extraordinary for its exactitude and clarity, the original intent of "The Stranger" is made more immediate. This haunting novel has been given a new life for genrations te come.

Albert Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.