The Beach (novel) only day-dream about". "The Beach" was made into a film in 2000, directed by Danny Boyle and starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Tilda Swinton, Robert Carlyle, Virginie Ledoyen and Guillaume Canet. The novel was at one point reportedly being considered for adaptation to a television series by "The Secret Circle" developer Andrew Miller. The Beach (novel) The Beach is a 1996 novel by English author Alex Garland. Set in Thailand, it is the story of a young backpacker's search for a legendary, idyllic and isolated beach untouched by tourism, and his time there in its small, international community of backpackers. In 2000,
The Stranger (Camus novel) mistress of Raymond) is a man shot and killed by Meursault on a beach in colonial Algiers. In his 1956 analysis of the novel, Carl Viggiani wrote: Victor Brombert has analysed "L'Etranger" and Sartre's "Explication de "L'Etranger"" in the philosophical context of the Absurd. Louis Hudon has dismissed characterisation of "L'Etranger" as an existentialist novel in his 1960 analysis. The 1963 study by Ignace Feuerlicht begins with an examination of the themes of alienation, in the sense of Meursault being a 'stranger' in his society. In his 1970 analysis, Leo Bersani commented that "L'Etranger" is "mediocre" in its attempt to