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| The Outsider (Penguin Modern Classics) | 
enlarge | Author: Albert Camus Publisher: Penguin Classics Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating: 56 reviews Sales Rank: 4174
Media: Paperback Edition: New edition Pages: 128 Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.2 Dimensions (in): 7.6 x 5 x 0.4
ISBN: 0141182504 Dewey Decimal Number: 813 EAN: 9780141182506 ASIN: 0141182504
Publication Date: February 24, 2000 Availability: Usually dispatched within 1-2 business days
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Absolute reality. August 28, 1999 It could be said as to be amazing, how relative this book is to todays society. Brilliantly written, 'The Outsider' is a masterpiece in itself. I was shocked while reading it, of how much i can relate to this ... "outsider".
118 pages of reading pleasure!!!!!! August 22, 1999 1 out of 2 found this review helpful
This book is great! A man being an outsider because he doesn't deny the truth, even though it causes him trouble. A simple story, but a brilliant theme!!
read in context August 17, 1999 An early work in the life of Camus, the sentiments and philosophy developed in this novel would be expanded, reviewed and reconsidered throughout Camus' life. Simply reading the 'Letters to A German Friend', wriiten a few years later, shows how Camus had moved on from the somewhat basic 'outsider' concept, and show that Camus was never a true existentialist, but a humanist. Read this book in the context of Camus' work as a whole (which is how he intended it), and you will really understand something.
An Existensionalist Classic July 13, 1999 This is a fantastic story about one man's opposition of society. He cannot lie, and is thus punished for not conforming to the political correctness of 40's France. Camus excelled in creating a multitextured, thought provoking novel, that both relates to, and repulses the reader with it's apparent pointlessness. A remarkable book, which says about as much of the author as it does about the world we live in.
Lumen abs expedio infernum June 30, 1999 1 out of 1 found this review helpful
"Understanding comes from the freeing fire."It has not been a lot that I read a book and cannot sleep after finishing it! This book is for the person who finds himself an 'outsider' in the social dorm. To me it has shown that 'not knowing' things does not neccesarily mean you must stop living. That is when living starts. Unfortunately society puts roadsigns everywhere. Distrust in the inner voice grows from this and follows with an almost robotic belief in a 'dark' world where we need a 'light'(or sign) to show us where to put the next foot. The book free's you from your own entrapment and shows you what living really means!
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