L'Hôte

Jacques Ferrandez adapts Albert Camus’s existential novel L’Étranger into a single, self-contained graphic novel for Gallimard, published in 2009. As both writer and artist, Ferrandez brings the spare, sun-scorched Algerian landscape and the detached perspective of Meursault to vivid life. This elegant, faithful translation of a 20th-century classic stands as a quiet landmark in French literary comics, offering a visual meditation on absurdism and colonial alienation.