书籍 The Outsider的封面

The Outsider

Albert Camus

出版时间

2013-10-31

ISBN

9780141198064

评分

★★★★★
书籍介绍

'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal. Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd, and revolting against the injustice of society, depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world. Sandra Smith's translation, based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954, sensitively renders the subtleties and dream-like atmosphere of L'Étranger. Albert Camus (1913-1960), French novelist, essayist and playwright, is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. His most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Plague (1947), The Just (1949), The Rebel (1951) and The Fall (1956). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, and his last novel, The First Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared in print for the first time in 1994, and was published in English soon after by Hamish Hamilton. Sandra Smith was born and raised in New York City and is a Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, where she teaches French Literature and Language. She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize, as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.

Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 i...

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用户评论
“A dreamlike sensual book filled with quiet joy in the tender indifference of the physical world.”
打开这本书的时候完全没料到论文会做alienation 只能说缘 妙不可言
作者好样的,成功让我读完了很闹心~
"Meursault was 'the only Christ we deserve'." 喜欢加缪写主人公在休庭期间被带回牢房的路上,听到的那些声音:“The shouts of the newspaper sellers in the calm night air, the last few birds in the town square, the people selling sandwiches, the creaking of the trams along the high bends of the city and the slight breeze from above before night suddenly falls over the port.”
还要再读一遍
tender, indifferent, of little joy
存在主义之问:How to kill time?
很短 两天读完 前期很享受阅读关于scenes的description。我喜欢作者对街道,天空,和大海的描述,烘托出很平静的氛围,很现实。 通篇 我在evaluate每一件事,我会从我的道德观去assess一件事。从母亲的葬礼,打狗的邻居,打女友的朋友,我对marie的想法,我杀了人,我在court上的表现,prosecutor的说辞… 很印证 荒谬但是又不脱离现实 很佩服我对 生 的看法。也对我在监狱那些感受印象很深。 我站在外面看一个 一个外表平面 内向有结构 的人 他所做的一切。我时而共鸣时而不能sympathize。 喜欢第一个section的vibe 后期也很不错 被死刑送上断头台吓了一跳 喜欢憧憬我也能有天想通 像书里我的一样拥有思想
薄荷阅读完成。讲真不是很能get
高三读的,第一本读完的英文书。