by Heather Wilbur and Brandon Gade

1. A short excerpt from the 1967 film, The Stranger, as directed by Luchino Visconti based on Albert Camus’ novel The Stranger .

3. Albert Camus In the 1940’s Camus became well known as a world-class literary intellectual from a local author and playwright unknown to anyone outside Algiers. When he published The Stranger he became internationally known. Albert Camus was well known as a novelist, dramatist, journalist, philosophical essayist, and champion of freedom. During this time period there was war going on in Europe, official censorship and crackdown on left-wing journals. Camus did not have a secure job or much income. He married his second wife Francine Faure in December of 1940. He moved from Lyons back to Algeria to become a French history and geography teacher to have some sort of income. This was all going on while Camus was finishing up The Stranger. When it was finally published in 1942 this particular novel made him famous in the literary world.