The premiere of “The Outsider” at this year’s Venice Film Festival brings to the screen one of the world’s most read novels, penned by French author Albert Camus, a star in his day and now.

Winner of the Nobel prize three years before his tragic death in 1960 at the age of 46, Camus has found new admirers in younger generations who love to quote him in rap lyrics and on social media.

Here we look at five different faces of the writer whose opening to “The Outsider” — “Mother died today. Or, maybe, yesterday; I can’t be sure” — has become a classic of the modern novel.

– Influencer –

Camus penned those famous lines to his first novel at the age of 29. Translated into nearly 70 languages, it is the bestselling book in mass market paperback format in France.

French director Francois Ozon

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