The stranger
Subtitle: based on the novel by Albert Camus
By: Jacques Ferrandez ; translated by Sandra Smith
Contributors: Smith, Sandra, 1949- translator; Camus, Albert, 1913-1960
Edition: First Pegasus Books hardcover edition.
Publisher: Pegasus Books
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9781681771359
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: Existential ethics; Social life and customs; Murder; Misanthropy; Alienation (Social psychology); Murderers; Comic books, strips
Work titles: Étranger
Description: The day his mother dies, Meursault notices that it is very hot on the bus that is taking him from Algiers to the retirement home where his mother lived; so hot that he falls asleep. Later, while waiting for the wake to begin, the harsh electric lights in the room make him extremely uncomfortable, so he gratefully accepts the coffee the caretaker offers him and smokes a cigarette. The same burning sun that so oppresses him during the funeral walk will once again blind the calm, reserved Meursault as he walks along a deserted beach a few days later--leading him to commit an irreparable act.
Notes: Translation from the French of: Étranger.