Looking For the Stranger: Albert Camus and the Life of the Literary Classic

John M Musser Professor of French Alice Kaplan (Yale University)

The Stranger is a rite of passage for readers around the world. Since its publication in France in 1942, Camus s novel has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than six million copies. It s the rare novel that s as at likely to be found in a teen s backpack as in a graduate philosophy semi...