Confounding, disturbing and yet icily compelling, the experience of watching François Ozon's "The Stranger" is not entirely dissimilar to that of reading the 1942 classic novel of alienation and ...

Before Dean Moriarty in On the Road and James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, there was Meursault, the nihilistic antihero of Albert Camus' first novel, The Stranger (L'étranger), and one of modern ...

Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) is a man of little words and fewer deeds. He idles away, smoking, brooding and gazing at the world with zen-like detachment, barely shedding a tear at his mother’s funeral ...

Some novels endure the brutal test of time. Ernest Hemingway’s “The Sun Also Rises” (1926) spoke to its “lost generation” and still finds readers. “The Stranger” (L’Étranger) by Albert Camus is a ...

First published in 1942, Albert Camus’ The Stranger — also known as The Outsider — was a popular fashion accessory in the post-punk ’70s, being heavy in content and light enough in weight to carry ...

Meursault (Benjamin Voisin) is a man of little words and fewer deeds. He idles away, smoking, brooding and gazing at the world with zen-like detachment, barely shedding a tear at his mother's funeral ...

Confounding, disturbing and yet icily compelling, the experience of watching François Ozon’s “The Stranger” is not entirely dissimilar to that of reading Albert Camus’ 1942 classic. Wisely, Ozon only ...