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The Stranger

Albert Camus

Form
Form Novel
Year
Year 1942
Originally in
Originally in French
Pages
Pages 130

A French Algerian clerk buries his mother without tears, shoots an Arab man on a blinding beach, and is condemned less for the killing than for failing to weep.

Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can't be sure.
The Stranger, Albert Camus

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