The Stranger: The Original Unabridged and Complete Edition

Albert Camus Classics

De: Albert Camus

Narrado por: Ben Carl

Duración: 3 h y 6 m

Resumen del Editor

The Stranger (French: L'Étranger [le.tʁɑ.ʒe]), also published in English as The Outsider, is a 1942 novella written by French author Albert Camus. The first of Camus' novels published in his lifetime, the story follows Meursault, an indifferent settler in French Algeria, who, weeks after his mother's funeral, kills an unnamed Arab man in Algiers.

The story is divided into two parts, presenting Meursault's first-person narrative before and after the killing.

Camus completed the initial manuscript by May 1941, with revisions were suggested by André Malraux, Jean Paulhan, and Raymond Queneau and later adopted in the final version. The original French-language first edition of the novella was published on May 19, 1942, by Gallimard, under its original title; it appeared in bookstores from that June but was restricted to an initial 4,400 copies, so few that it could not be a bestseller. Published during the Nazi occupation of France, it went on sale without censorship or omission by the Propaganda-Staffel.

It began being published in English from 1946, first in the United Kingdom, where its title was changed to avoid confusion with the translation of Maria Kuncewiczowa's novel of the same name; after being published in the United States, the novella retained its original name, and the British-American difference in titles has persisted in subsequent editions. The Stranger gained popularity among anti-Nazi circles following its focus in Jean-Paul Sartre's 1947 article "Explication de L'Étranger".

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Overrated

I think this story is overrated and the performance of the reader of the audiobook was horrible. There was a lot of background noise, phone rings, mistakes, yawning, other noises. Never heard something like that on any audiobook. Sounds like an amateur home made audiobook.

The Stranger

The reader made a lot of mistakes and even yawned! How can you sell poor quality like this? I'd like to get a refund. I read more than 60 books on Audible. The other books were wonderful!

Amateur reader

The reader was dull and such an amateur. So many mistakes were made with not only pronunciation but clear lack of understanding what words mean! It was so distracting, and makes you wonder if the reader was an early high school kid!

How poorly it was read with multiple mispronunciations!

The narrator was absolutely terrible! I was stunned at how bad it is and resent having payed for this audiobook.