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The Stranger

The Graphic Novel
By Albert Camus
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The Stranger follows Meursault, a detached and reserved man whose indifferent reaction to his mother's death sets a tone of existential detachment. Against the oppressive heat of Algiers, Meursault's experience leads to a senseless and irreversible act on a deserted beach. As he faces trial, his calm acceptance of fate challenges conventional notions of morality and justice.
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This graphic novel adaptation is suited for readers interested in philosophical literature and graphic storytelling, particularly those who appreciate existential themes and classic novels reimagined in visual form.

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A visually stunning adaptation of Albert Camus' masterpiece that offers an exciting new graphic interpretation while retaining the book's unique atmosphere.

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The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep. Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette.

The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will once again blind the calm, reserved Meursault as he walks along a deserted beach a few days later—leading him to commit an irreparable act.

This new illustrated edition of Camus's classic novel The Stranger portrays an enigmatic man who commits a senseless crime and then calmly, and apparently indifferently, sits through his trial and hears himself condemned to death.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781681771359

Publisher: Pegasus Books

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 07 June 2016

Country: United States

Imprint: Pegasus Books

Contributors:

  • Translated by Sandra Smith
  • Illustrated by Jacques Ferrandez

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 15.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 839g

Pages: 144

Collections

Albert Camus Classic Fiction Crime & Thriller Fiction General Fiction Graphic Novels

About the Author

Albert Camus was born in Algeria in 1913. During World War II, he joined the Resistance movement in Paris, then became editor-in-chief of the newspaper Combat during the Liberation. A novelist, playwright, and essayist, he is most famous for his novels The Stranger and The Plague. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. Sandra Smith is the translator of all twelve novels by Irene Nemirovsky; a new translation of Camus' L'Etranger (The Outsider, Penguin UK); and The Necklace and Other Stories: Maupassant for Modern Times (Liveright). Her translation of Nemirovsky's Suite Francaise won the French-American Foundation and Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize for Fiction, as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize. After ten years as a Fellow of Robinson College, Cambridge, Smith now lives in New York. Jacques Ferrandez was born in Algeria in 1955. In 1987, he began his Notebooks from the Orient, a series of panoramic portraits depicting the history of the French presence in Algeria, for which he was awarded the Historia Prix Special. An indisputable expert on the Algerian question, he adapted Camus' short story The Guest as a graphic novel before undertaking this new intepretation of The Stranger. His books have been the subject of many exhibitions in France and Algeria.

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