5/9/2023 0 Comments The stranger outsiderLe Monde ranked The Stranger as number one on its 100 Books of the 20th Century. Ĭonsidered a classic of 20th-century literature, The Stranger has received critical acclaim for Camus' philosophical outlook, absurdism, syntactic structure, and existentialism (despite Camus' rejection of the label), particularly within its final chapter. The Stranger gained popularity among anti-Nazi circles following its focus in Jean-Paul Sartre's 1947 article "Explication de L'Étranger ". It began being published in English from 1946, first in the United Kingdom, where its title was changed to avoid confusion with the translation of Maria Kuncewiczowa's novel of the same name after being published in the United States, the novella retained its original name, and the British-American difference in titles has persisted in subsequent editions. Published during the Nazi occupation of France, it went on sale without censorship or omission by the Propaganda-Staffel. The original French-language first edition of the novella was published on May 19, 1942, by Gallimard, under its original title it appeared in bookstores from that June but was restricted to an initial 4,400 copies, so few that it could not be a bestseller. Camus completed the initial manuscript by May 1941, with revisions were suggested by André Malraux, Jean Paulhan, and Raymond Queneau and later adopted in the final version.
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