Theatrical reading of L'Étranger by Albert Camus With Emmanuel Franval, actor, accompanied on the harp by Martine Flaissier. Published in 1942, L'Étranger holds an essential place in the work of Albert Camus. With The Myth of Sisyphus, the novel is one of the first great milestones in his reflection on the absurd. Through the character of Meursault, an ordinary man detached from social conventions and unable to feign feelings he does not feel, Camus questions the human condition in the face of the obvious absence of meaning in the world.Condemned as much for his apparent indifference to the death of his mother as for the murder he committed, Meursault becomes an emblematic figure of solitude, of the relationship with justice, of the truth of being and of confrontation with death.With its sober style, short sentences and neutral tone, L'Étranger breaks with the psychological traditions of the 19th century and profoundly marks modern literature.Born in April 1952 in Bordeaux, Emmanuel Franval studied literature and education sciences, as well as three years of theatrical training at the Bordeaux conservatory. Theatre actor between Paris and Marseille, he has performed a hundred plays by Molière, Racine, Ionesco, Labiche, Courteline, Brisville, Brecht or even Anouilh. Between 1995 and 1996, he adapted two novels by Hervé Guibert devoted to AIDS under the title Le Sang démasqué, a show that he performed a hundred times.

A theatrical staging takes the form of an imaginary dialogue between a Venerable Master, played by Colette Loubatière, historian and member of the History Commission of the French Federation of Human Rights, and Baruch Spinoza, played by Jean-Marie Lovicki, member of the Grand Orient de France.Baruch Spinoza is applying for admission to Freemasonry. After reading the three surveys, the Venerable Master asked him: "Mr. Spinoza, how can you reconcile freedom and determinism?"He replied: "Men are wrong when they believe themselves free. They are aware of their actions, but ignore the causes that determine them. Freedom is not to decide, but to understand what drives us.”After the hearing under the candidate’s banner, the assembly will have to decide on his possible admission...