L’Étranger

Full text in French without notes.

“When the bell rang again, when the box door opened, it was the silence of the room that rose towards me, the silence, and this singular feeling that I had when I noticed that the young journalist had looked away. I didn’t look at Marie. I didn’t have time because the president told me in a weird way that I would have my head cut off in a public place in the name of the French people…”