The Stranger

Book 22193 in RoRoRo

Thirty years after its original publication, The Stranger remains among the most influential books of our time. A terrifying picture if a man victimized by life itself--he is a faceless man, who has commited a pointless murder--it is a book whos unrelenting grip upon our consciousness has not diminished to this day.

123 pages

English language

Published Jan. 6, 1989 by Vintage International.

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Subjects
  • Murder -- Fiction
  • Algeria -- Fiction

Reviews

Intriguing and awkward.

The book is initially quite weird to start. Most of the sentences are short and clipped, and it largely feels like reading an ongoing journal of a select few days in a person's life. In fact, I quite like that structure; it's not something that I've really encountered before.

I also find it interesting for the questions that it poses, particularly with regards to the subject of a life and their experiences. Beyond that, I can't really write a review for it; there's a lot that I still want to digest and revisit at a later date.