This is the opening line of “The Stranger” by Albert Camus, a book about seeking meaning and recognition in an often uncaring ...

Albert Camus—Knopf ($3.50 ... without finding its opposite mocking him from the bottom of the glass. The book’s best story, The Artist at Work, is a corrosively witty account of the rise ...

"It was uncanny and unsettling," Sharpe recalls, but the experience increased his appreciation "for the precision and prescience" of Camus' observations. Sharpe also touched on what makes a book ...

Only three years later, he dies in a car accident. Camus’ books were recognized as significant in the era when they appeared. Readers are usually first introduced to his book The Stranger ...