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by Alice Kaplan
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Looking for The Stranger Albert Camus and the Life of a Looking for the Stranger is a biographicalstyle account of Algerian author Albert Camus as he is writing his famed novel The Stranger The Outsider published in 1942 Kaplan describes it as the biography of the novel rather than the novelist Looking for The Stranger Albert Camus and the Life of a Looking for The Stranger Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic Born in poverty in colonial Algeria Camus started out as a journalist covering the criminal courts The murder trials he attended Kaplan shows would be a major influence on the development and themes of The Stranger Looking for The Stranger Albert Camus and the Life of a Looking for The Stranger Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic by Alice Kaplan The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world Since its publication in France in 1942 Camus’s novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies Looking for The Stranger Albert Camus and the Life of a The book Looking for The Stranger Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic Alice Kaplan is published by University of Chicago Press Looking for The Stranger Albert Camus and the Life of a And so the silent universe has been twice bested bested first by Camus for seeing The Stranger into print and welllaunched into the world and bested by Kaplan for giving us the journey of The Stranger from Camus’ scribbles to cultural touchstone Strange Thing How Camus Wrote ‘The Stranger’ The Looking for The Stranger Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic by Alice Kaplan University of Chicago Press 2016 Hardcover 288 pages 26 T he French philosopher Gabriel Marcel wrote in The Philosophy of Existentialism that JeanPaul “Sartre’s world is the world as seen from the terrace of a café” The other major French existentialist writer a very different one was Albert Camus 1913–1960 Looking for The Stranger Albert Camus and the Life of a And Looking for The Stranger is essentially Kaplans biography of Camuss book a chronicle of its insemination gestation and birth from its origins in his failed experiment in fiction A Looking for “The Stranger” Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic with Alice Kaplan But literary classics are made not born though The Stranger was a book very few readers understood or appreciated when it was published in 1942 it became a household name—a regular on lists ‘Looking over Albert Camus’ shoulder’ Kaplan offers a “The Stranger” Albert Camus’ classic novel which is about to celebrate its 75th anniversary in print almost wasn’t published Alice Kaplan the John M Musser Professor of French recounts this near miss in her most recent book “Looking for The Stranger Albert Camus and the Life of a Literary Classic” which is a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award
