The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
by Albert Camus
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Author: Albert CamusEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-01
ISBN: 0141182504
Number of pages: 128
Publisher: Penguin Group(CA)
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Book Review: make sure you're getting the Stuart Gilbert translation
Summary: 5 Stars
Alexander Pope's translation (c. 1720) of the Iliad. Now there's a preposterously highblown translation that many would think needed to be redone for the modern age.
But Stuart Gilbert's masterful translation of "L'etranger" from 1946 is for me perfect and, heck, still easily available. There was nothing that needed to be reworked about that: pace Laredo and Ward, it's still fresh and relevant.
Further, Gilbert's rendering has the kind of spare grace that conveys the flavor of the original much better than Joseph Laredo's, arguably conveying, by means of its overall icy tone, Mersault's remote demeanor much more convincingly. The final phrase, "greet me with howls of execration" is much more chillingly rendered there than here, in Laredo's pedestrian and forgettable "greet me with cries of hatred."
Summary of The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics)
Meursault leads an apparently unremarkable bachelor life in Algiers until he commits a random act of violence. His lack of emotion and failure to show remorse only serve to increase his guilt in the eyes of the law, and challenges the fundamental values of society a set of rules so binding that any person breaking them is condemned as an outsider. For Meursault, this is an insult to his reason and a betrayal of his hopes; for Camus it encapsulates the absurdity of life. In "The Outsider" (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the predicament of the individual who refuses to pretend and is prepared to face the indifference of the universe, courageously and alone.Literature & Fiction Books
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