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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

VENICE — Adapting a book for the screen is always "a betrayal," French director François Ozon says, but in bringing Albert Camus' "The Stranger" to the Venice Film Festival he hopes to generate fresh ...

'The Stranger,' financed and produced by Gaumont, world premieres today in competition at the Venice Film Festival. When Francois Ozon embarked on the daunting big-screen adaptation of Albert Camus’ ...

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 ...

I grew up on a mortgaged cattle ranch with a grandmother, who spoke in tongues, and a mother addicted to prescription pills: Percodan, Valium, Vicodin, you name it. My father was killed when I was ...

One of Algeria’s greatest sons, the late Albert Camus, is back where he rightfully belongs–center stage! Thanks to Elizabeth Hawes’ delightful and vibrant book, “Camus: a Romance,” and Robert Zaretsky ...

When Francois Ozon embarked on the daunting big-screen adaptation of Albert Camus’ “The Stranger” — considered one of France’s literary jewels for the last 80 years — he wanted to give it a ...