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(L'Etranger) The Outsider

(L'Etranger) The Outsider

Camus, Albert
Okri, Ben

Paperback

Series: Oberon Modern Plays

Literary CriticismPlaysPlaywriting

ISBN10: 1786826658
ISBN13: 9781786826657
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Published: Sep 14 2018
Pages: 136
Weight: 0.30
Height: 0.50 Width: 5.00 Depth: 7.80
Language: English

Camus' sparse parable about the human condition is one of the great stories of the 20th Century, here adapted for the stage by Booker prize winner Ben Okri.

A faceless man who can no longer pretend, Mersault commits a senseless murder under the glare of the Algerian sun. On trial he feels distanced from proceedings, he is castigated for not expressing remorse, for not crying at his mother's funeral, and is forced to confront the hypocrisy and injustice of society. In an age where we are being increasingly told what to feel, The Outsider is a blast of uncompromising honesty.

Albert Camus, French novelist, essayist, philosopher and Nobel laureate, was one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th Century. Ben Okri, author of The Famished Road, is one of contemporary literature's most important writers. This adaption brings them together for a rare dramatisation of one of modern literature's most celebrated works.

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