L’Étranger The Stranger

by Albert Camus

$6,500 · Offered by Manhattan Rare Books

First edition

”Aujourd'hui maman est morte. Ou peut-être hier, je ne sais pas.” FIRST EDITION OF ONE OF THE DEFINING NOVELS OF THE TWENTIETH CENTURY. “From its cold opening lines, ‘Mother died today. Or maybe yesterday; I can’t be sure,’ to its bleak concluding image of a public execution set to take place beneath the ‘benign indifference of the universe,’ Camus’s first and most famous novel

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