This version of the book has been reviewed in English(1372), German(1), Spanish(6), French(11), Portuguese(2), Dutch(1) by readers.
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Valerie posted a review at 2009-11-29 09:44:12.
(Language: English)
   
as part of my french literature course..liked it a lot!
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Jordan posted a review at 2009-11-28 16:09:26.
(Language: English)
easy to read and understand...
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Ted posted a review at 2009-11-17 17:26:38.
(Language: English)
Albert Camus was 29 when he wrote THE STRANGER, his most famous book. Like almost all existential works, this one leaves me cold. Perhaps I am not brave enough to embrace the emotionally detached world Camus, Sartre, Kierkegaard and others inhabit. THE STRANGER is the story of Meursault, who expresses no emotion at his mother's funeral, expresses no emotion when he enters into a torrid affair with a beautiful woman he used to work with, expresses no emotion when he helps an acquaintance write a cruel break-up letter and expresses no emotion when he kills an Arab man for no particular reason.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-11-13 06:28:32.
(Language: French)
Grand roman, grand écrivain.
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Victoria posted a review at 2009-11-06 18:50:09.
(Language: English)
Of course it must be read but it needn't be liked.
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Meagan posted a review at 2009-11-04 03:54:54.
(Language: English)
easy to read, but difficult to read well
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A reader posted a review at 2009-11-01 03:34:40.
(Language: French)
La première partie du livre fait penser à du John Steinbeck en plus raffiner, moins rustre (personnellement, John Steinbeck c'est pas mon truc...). La façon dont se place le personnage principal est toutefois appréciable ; en retrait, comme un observateur, notant les petits détails de vie humaine sans pour autant dériver en de longue description. En revanche la seconde partie du livre (c'est-à-dire la deuxième moitié) est géniale. Le lecteur se met sans difficulté à la place du héros et patiente avec lui en prison, assiste à ses côtés au procès et rêvasse avec lui d'une autre issue.
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Peter posted a review at 2009-10-29 00:26:34.
(Language: English)
One of the most challenging looks into what it means to exist, where our values and morals come into contact with a vacuum of human experience and how someone outside the normal social behavior simply cannot survive in our conformist culture. Utterly groundbreaking for me and my own exploration of Existentialism.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-10-23 11:34:15.
(Language: English)
Ahhh existentialism...this intrigues my heart and mind.
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A reader posted a review at 2009-10-22 16:26:08.
(Language: English)
Three cheers for French existentialism!!! If you enjoy books that have almost no plot, almost no characters, almost no meaning, and that still teach you something about human nature, this book is for you.
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