L'Hôte. Albert Camus' Novelle. Jacques Ferrandez'

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Regarding the Goal of this Guide:

Our intention is to provide teachers and students with well-founded, compact, and methodologically diverse materials for exploring the short story L'Hôte.

Recreated comic vignettes allow for a visually appealing exploration of the central themes: thus, the errors and questionable gaps in the comic are utilized alongside its grandiose achievements for the interpretation of the short story.

Additionally, text variants from earlier versions of the short story (which was written between 1952 and 1957) are included as support, thereby familiarizing students with text-critical procedures.

A Multimedia DVD:

On the DVD, you will find all work and results sheets as well as numerous supplementary texts (and, of course, the respective transcribed texts of the film clips) as PDF and WORD files.

Excerpts from two documentaries by filmmaker Jean-Pierre Lledo (Algérie, histoires à ne pas dire... and Grand-Père a tué deux colons) shed light on the massacre of the European civilian population organized by Algerian nationalists in El Halia (Philippeville) on August 20, 1955, as well as the failed uprising of May 8, 1945, in North Constantinois, which is alluded to in the short story, although its plot (according to the information in the text) is set in 1946.

Several sequences from Les Oliviers de la Justice (by James Blue and Jean Pélégri, 1962, based on the novel of the same name published by Gallimard in 1959), the only feature film shot on original locations (Algiers, Sidi-Moussa) during the Algerian War in 1961/1962, provide further unique authentic testimonies.

The Socio-Cultural Tension of L'Hôte:

Additionally, the socio-cultural and political tension of Algérie française is highlighted, as only a precise knowledge of this allows for an adequate, text-based interpretation of the short story - apart from groundless or even explicitly denied speculations and fantasies by the narrator.

This information is intended not only as an extension of knowledge and competence for teachers and students but also as a basis for specialized and seminar papers, for which a separate catalog of topics with processing suggestions is offered.

This guide, as well as the study on the colonial context of the short story published in 2014 (Wolf Albes: "L'Hôte". La nouvelle d'Albert Camus et la bande dessinée de Jacques Ferrandez dans le contexte colonial, Edition Atlantis), provides the reader with extensive authentic materials and analyses.

Contents:

• Short story versus comic: critical comparison on 11 color pages;
• The tragedy structure of the short story; 2 color pages (short story and comic structure);
• 12 multifunctional, methodologically diverse (illustrated) worksheets with detailed solution suggestions;
• Over a dozen illustrated learning objective checks with variants and extensive expectation horizons;
• Supplementary drawings by Jacques Ferrandez and impulses for developing supplementary suggestions for the comic;
• "Cherchez l'erreur" on central themes and aspects;
• Further helpful materials, including:

a) Transcriptions of the 25 film sequences with explanations; b) Thematic short analyses, résumés, commentaires; c) Vocabulary explanations (chronological + alphabetical); d) Grammar exercises on gérondif/participe présent, etc.

120 pages.