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.