THE GUEST, a Short Story by Albert Camus, Nobel Prize Winner in Literature.

"The Guest" by Albert Camus is a story set in Algeria, focusing on a schoolmaster named Daru who lives in isolation on a high plateau. One day, an old gendarme named Balducci brings an Arab prisoner to Daru, instructing him to take the man to the authorities in Tinguit. Daru is conflicted but agrees to house the prisoner for the night. In the morning, he ......

[@njd2342]

I've walked the Atlas mountains which made listening to this short story that much better. Well read Sir.

[@paulburns7695]

Is this read by AI ? Some very unusual pronunciations !

[@AriaSuperBass]

​@@paulburns7695 It apparently is some type of AI cloned voice.

[@francislarv3012]

Masterful spare prose like the landscape it depicts. Detail of mundane life worked in matter of factly but artfully. And that stomach sinking dread finale…

[@terrymitchell2533]

Beautiful narrated I enjoyed it but I don’t like cliff hangers I don’t have much of an imagination but I enjoy short stories very much Thank you 👍🥂

[@fraidoonw]

Thanks! What an amazing story!❤

[@lararabb8888]

I like this story. I had heard it before.

[@Aiko2-26-9]

I wish I understood the context better, geographical and historical. Still, I was drawn in to the story.

[@stephenperretti8847]

So, did they guy who wrote the message on the blackboard think the teacher handed the murderer over to the police, and they wanted vengeance? Or, did the murdered guy's family know that the murderer was set free and they wanted vengeance? Either way, the teacher is in big trouble.

[@susanpetropoulos1039]

Obstinate forehead?

[@Marigold502]

Phrenology😅

[@susanpetropoulos1039]

@@Marigold502 hahaha