The Outsider

Albert Camus (7 November 1913 – 4 January 1960) was a French philosopher, author, and journalist. His views contributed to the rise of the philosophy known as absurdism. He wrote in his essay The Rebel that his whole life was devoted to opposing the philosophy of nihilism while still delving deeply into individual freedom. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature at the age of 44 in 1957, the second youngest recipient in history. Camus did not consider himself to be an existentialist despite usually being classified as a follower of it, even in his lifetime. In a 1945 interview, Camus rejected any ideological associations: "No, I am not an existentialist. Sartre and I are always surprised to see our names linked." Camus was born in French Algeria to a Pied-Noir family and studied at the University of Algiers, from which he graduated in 1936. In 1949, Camus founded the Group for International Liaisons[6] to "denounce two ideologies found in both the USSR and the USA".

出版者:Penguin Classics

作者:Albert Camus

页数:128

译者:Sandra Smith

出版时间:2013-10-31

价格:GBP 7.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780141198064

图书标签:AlbertCamus加缪法国文学文学英文原版英文版小说存在主义

'My mother died today. Or maybe yesterday, I don't know.' In The Outsider (1942), his classic existentialist novel, Camus explores the alienation of an individual who refuses to conform to social norms. Meursault, his anti-hero, will not lie. When his mother dies, he refuses to show his emotions simply to satisfy the expectations of others. And when he commits a random act of violence on a sun-drenched beach near Algiers, his lack of remorse compounds his guilt in the eyes of society and the law. Yet he is as much a victim as a criminal. Albert Camus' portrayal of a man confronting the absurd, and revolting against the injustice of society, depicts the paradox of man's joy in life when faced with the 'tender indifference' of the world. Sandra Smith's translation, based on close listening to a recording of Camus reading his work aloud on French radio in 1954, sensitively renders the subtleties and dream-like atmosphere of L'Étranger. Albert Camus (1913-1960), French novelist, essayist and playwright, is one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century. His most famous works include The Myth of Sisyphus (1942), The Plague (1947), The Just (1949), The Rebel (1951) and The Fall (1956). He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957, and his last novel, The First Man, unfinished at the time of his death, appeared in print for the first time in 1994, and was published in English soon after by Hamish Hamilton. Sandra Smith was born and raised in New York City and is a Fellow of Robinson College, University of Cambridge, where she teaches French Literature and Language. She has won the French American Foundation Florence Gould Foundation Translation Prize, as well as the PEN Book-of-the-Month Club Translation Prize.

读后感

重读加缪的《局外人》，我印象最深的是主人公默尔索的这一句：「人生在世，永远也不该演戏作假。」可以说这正是他人生哲学的根基，也是他的悲剧根源。 《局外人》的情节很简单，主人公默尔索是一个对生活各方面都抱有「无所谓」态度的人，一次无意的杀人让他上了法庭，最终被判...  

“妈妈一定感受到了解脱，因而准备再重新过一遍。任何人，任何人都没有权利哭她。而我，我现在也感到自己准备好把一切再过一遍。”——《局外人》 坦白说不知道该从什么角度来谈加缪，也不知道该怎么聊这本书，所以借鉴之前看马原的讲义，他说的是一个小说的9种写法（或者叫死...  

每隔些年读《局外人》都会有新收获，大概这是判断一本书能不能列为经典的标准。 1. “活在当下”既积极也消极。好的部分，那就是容易在日常生活里获得快乐。比如默尔索下班后和同事一起追着卡车跑，气喘吁吁，只为了去听卡车链条哗啦声与内燃机噼啪声。比如沿着码头傍晚散步，...  

只是表面冷冰冰——读《局外人》后的琐碎感想 妈妈的同事在她婆婆的葬礼上哭得异常伤心，所有在场的吊唁者都为之动容，事后人们纷纷夸赞这个儿媳妇孝顺、有良心，婆婆在天之灵应该为有这样的儿媳妇而感到高兴。而妈妈却告诉我，她的同事和婆婆的关系其实非常不好，之所以她哭...  

重读加缪的《局外人》，我印象最深的是主人公默尔索的这一句：「人生在世，永远也不该演戏作假。」可以说这正是他人生哲学的根基，也是他的悲剧根源。 《局外人》的情节很简单，主人公默尔索是一个对生活各方面都抱有「无所谓」态度的人，一次无意的杀人让他上了法庭，最终被判...  

用户评价

套句朋友说的，这书只能在你感觉孤单时阅读，但却越读越孤独。问题是你开心快乐时，压根读不进这种书。"It doesn't mean anything" 噗！最可怕的事你对isolation的疑惑居然被认同了。到底做一个局外人可否？

Hate me! All this hatred makes me alive.The sky is fuzzy and same as my soul.

虽然有很多单词不认识，但是感觉英文版比中文版好懂一点。

“Aujourd’hui, maman est morte. “

“A dreamlike sensual book filled with quiet joy in the tender indifference of the physical world.”