4.1
El Extranjero
by Albert Camus
La obra transcurre en Argelia, a mediados del siglo XX, y narra la historia de Mersault un hombre en apariencia común y corriente desde que recibe la noticia de la muerte de su madre, hasta que es conducido al cadalso, condenado por asesinato. Camus describe los sucesos cotidianos de Marsault, incluyendo sus contactos con su amigo Raymond, su novia María y su jefe, al igual que el suceso en el que asesina a un hombre y el proceso judicial que terminada con la condena del protagonista; para ello utiliza un lenguaje sencillo e incluso parco. ¿Qué es lo que hace entonces a El extranjero una obra trascendente? La actitud y sentimientos de Mersault, quien manifiesta su total indiferencia frente a la muerte de un ser querido, a las vicisitudes de su amigo, al afecto de su novia o, lo más sorprendente, al resultado de su enjuiciamiento.
Fiction
RELEASED2006
PUBLISHEREmecé
LENGTH157
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Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
4.1
El Extranjero
by Albert Camus
La obra transcurre en Argelia, a mediados del siglo XX, y narra la historia de Mersault un hombre en apariencia común y corriente desde que recibe la noticia de la muerte de su madre, hasta que es conducido al cadalso, condenado por asesinato. Camus describe los sucesos cotidianos de Marsault, incluyendo sus contactos con su amigo Raymond, su novia María y su jefe, al igual que el suceso en el que asesina a un hombre y el proceso judicial que terminada con la condena del protagonista; para ello utiliza un lenguaje sencillo e incluso parco. ¿Qué es lo que hace entonces a El extranjero una obra trascendente? La actitud y sentimientos de Mersault, quien manifiesta su total indiferencia frente a la muerte de un ser querido, a las vicisitudes de su amigo, al afecto de su novia o, lo más sorprendente, al resultado de su enjuiciamiento.
Fiction
RELEASED2006
PUBLISHEREmecé
LENGTH157
LANGUAGEES
Albert Camus was a French Algerian author, philosopher, and journalist who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. He was a key philosopher of the 20th-century and his most famous work is the novel *L'Étranger* (*The Stranger*). In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons within the Revolutionary Union Movement, which was a group opposed to some tendencies of the surrealistic movement of André Breton. Camus was the second-youngest recipient of the Nobel Prize for Literature - after Rudyard Kipling - when he became the first African-born writer to receive the award. He is the shortest-lived of any literature laureate to date, having died in an automobile accident just over two years after receiving the award. He is often cited as a proponent of existentialism, the philosophy that he was associated with during his own lifetime, but Camus himself rejected this particular label. In an interview in 1945, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked…"
