🏛️ Politics 4d ago · David Sexton

Albert Camus, estranged

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Albert Camus’s 1942 debut novel, L’Étranger, remains one of the three most widely read stories in France, along with Les Misérables  and Le Petit Prince, at least according to AI. Teenagers are impressed by its brutal simplifications about the absurdity of life, but then do not reread it as adults. Thus, it still commands a peculiar cultural sway.



Luchino Visconti made a faithful, colourful film of the novel, Lo Straniero, in 1967, spavined by the casting as Meursault of Marcello Mastroianni,

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