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When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent imprisonment and trial are puzzling and absurd. The apparently amoral Meursault--who puts little stock in ideas like love and God--seems to be on trial less for his murderous actions, and more for what the authorities believe is his d...

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Main Author: Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
Other Authors: Ward, Matthew, Davis, Jonathan (Narrator) (Narrator)
Format: Audiobooks Audiobook (CD)
Language:English
Published: Prince Frederick, Md. : Recorded Books, p2005.
Edition:Unabridged.
Subjects:
Murderers > Algeria > Fiction.
Alienation (Social psychology) > Algeria > Fiction.
Algeria > Social life and customs > 20th century > Fiction.
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Summary:When a young Algerian named Meursault kills a man, his subsequent imprisonment and trial are puzzling and absurd. The apparently amoral Meursault--who puts little stock in ideas like love and God--seems to be on trial less for his murderous actions, and more for what the authorities believe is his deficient character.
Physical Description:3 sound discs (3.5 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
Production Credits:Producer, Claudia Howard ; director, Greta Byrum.
ISBN:1419337319
9781419337314
Author Notes:Born in 1913 in Algeria, Albert Camus was a French novelist, dramatist, and essayist. He was deeply affected by the plight of the French during the Nazi occupation of World War II, who were subject to the military's arbitrary whims. He explored the existential human condition in such works as L'Etranger (The Outsider, 1942) and Le Mythe de Sisyphe (The Myth of Sisyphus, 1942), which propagated the philosophical notion of the "absurd" that was being given dramatic expression by other Theatre of the Absurd dramatists of the 1950s and 1960s.

Camus also wrote a number of plays, including Caligula (1944). Much of his work was translated into English. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957.

Camus died in an automobile accident in 1960.

(Bowker Author Biography)

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