The Stranger
20.85 GEL
- Author: Albert Camus
- Year of publication: 2017
- Translator: Guranda Datashvili
- Page quantity: 133
- Cover designer / Illustrator: Nino Khosruashvili
- Language: Georgian
- Category: FICTION
- ISBN: 978-9941-9527-4-6
The novel “The Stranger” belongs to Albert Camus’s “Cycle of the Absurd” and is the eighth book by the Nobel Prize-winning writer, which Agora Publishing House offers to readers in Georgian. The main character of the novel, Meursault, is a principled person, strange, does not step on public morality, and society considers him a stranger. The hero of the book tells his story in the first person, but in a distant and cold tone, presenting it simply as a list of facts. However, Meursault is a positive person, refuses to lie and accepts facts as they are. According to Camus himself, Meursault is a person who, without any heroism, simply agrees to die for the sake of the truth. The dry style of the narrative immediately makes the reader feel that there is a kind of distance between the main character and society, they do not fit together. Roland Barthes called this style “white/empty writing” in his work “Level Zero of Writing.” He says: “Camus, in The Stranger, was the first to propose a manner of writing with transparent words, thus creating a style of non-existence, of absence, or the ideal absence of style.” In 1999, The Stranger was recognized as the best book of the twentieth century.