Prolific French director François Ozon touched down in Venice on Tuesday with his adaptation of Albert Camus’s absurdist classic The Stranger about a French expat living in colonial 1930s French ...
We were born at the beginning of the First World War. When we were adolescents, we had the Depression. When we were twenty, Hitler came. Then we had the Ethiopian war; the Spanish war; Munich. This is ...
“The Stranger,” Albert Camus’ classic novel, which is about to celebrate its 75th anniversary in print, almost wasn’t published. Alice Kaplan, the John M. Musser Professor of French, recounts this ...