'The Stranger' Carole Bethuel Foz Gaumont France 2 Cinema/Venice Film Festival Share on Facebook Share on X Share to Flipboard Send an Email Show additional share options Share on LinkedIn Share on Pinterest Share on Reddit Share on Tumblr Share on Whats App Print the Article Post a Comment Before Dean Moriarty in On the Road and James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause, there was Meursault, the nihilistic antihero of Albert Camus' first novel, The Stranger (L'étranger), and one of modern culture's original bad boys.