{"id":10979,"date":"2026-01-19T12:24:31","date_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:24:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/books\/the-stranger\/"},"modified":"2026-01-19T12:24:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-19T09:24:31","slug":"the-stranger","status":"publish","type":"dllbl_book","link":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/books\/the-stranger\/","title":{"rendered":"The Stranger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger\u2014Camus&#8217;s masterpiece\u2014gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly drawn into a senseless murder on an Algerian beach. With an Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie; translated by Matthew Ward. Behind the subterfuge, Camus explores what he termed &#8220;the nakedness of man faced with the absurd&#8221; and describes the condition of reckless alienation and spiritual exhaustion that characterized so much of twentieth-century life. \u201cThe Stranger is a strikingly modern text and Matthew Ward\u2019s translation will enable readers to appreciate why Camus\u2019s stoical anti-hero and \u00addevious narrator remains one of the key expressions of a postwar Western malaise, and one of the cleverest exponents of a literature of ambiguity.\u201d \u2013from the Introduction by Peter Dunwoodie First published in 1946; now in translation by Matthew Ward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the intrigue of a psychological thriller, The Stranger\u2014Camus&#8217;s masterpiece\u2014gives us the story of an ordinary man unwittingly<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":10980,"template":"","dllbl_topic":[3310,3312,3311,3309,3313,3308],"class_list":["post-10979","dllbl_book","type-dllbl_book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","dllbl_topic-fiction","dllbl_topic-french","dllbl_topic-medicine-in-literature","dllbl_topic-murder","dllbl_topic-novelas-francesas","dllbl_topic-philosophical-novels"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/10979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/dllbl_book"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/books\/10979\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10980"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"dllbl_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/curivia.net\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/dllbl_topic?post=10979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}