Description
Obcy made Albert Camus famous. It became a bestseller, something Camus perhaps never fully understood; he did not want to be known solely as the author of Obcy. Like it or not, in 1940 he gave the world a mirror in which humanity can see itself. It is one of those books (not just among French or twentieth-century books, but among books in general) that remain in constant circulation, endlessly read, pondered and interpreted. Still relevant, still unsettling. Demanding ever new editions, ever new translations.
Its enigmatic hero, Meursault, owes his name either to the well-known burgundy or to a marriage of sun and sea, tainted by a Burgundian ‘u’, from which he was born, with which he merges, and which bring him both happiness and suffering. It is a novel about being a stranger, about a man oppressed by society, a story about love, about the fatal influence of the sun. And about many other things.