Publier L’Étranger sur disques : une interprétation éditoriale de Camus

Abstract

Audiobooks are rarely considered and counted as one of the editorial forms of a literary work. The invisibilization of this medium testifies to its lack of legitimacy. However, a study of the audiobooks of L’Étranger shows that this medium can become a critical edition, even a scholarly edition. The paratext as well as the work on the illustration of the sleeves guide the reading of Camus’s work, in particular when placing the sun at the center of Meursault’s tragic fate—or not. The interpretation of the author or actors also makes it possible to position oneself in relation to the question of the neutrality or the atonal character of the text. Thus, Reggiani opposes the Barthesian reading of the novel while Lonsdale confirms it. Finally the slips, which sometimes occur in these versions, although they may discredit the value of these editions, also constitute variants likely to prompt new hermeneutical work.

Keywords

• audiobooks
• Albert Camus
• L’Étranger
• Zero degree of writings