'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'Etranger. 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.
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