L’étranger

Book Playlist

L’étranger Playlist

by Albert Camus

20 tracks

balanced

Oct 19, 2026

3 mixes for this book

This playlist follows Meursault’s world from the heat and sensory immediacy of French Algeria to the courtroom’s scrutiny and the novel’s stark confrontation with the absurd. Instrumental pieces evoke the sun-bleached landscape, emotional distance, and mounting pressure; the vocal selections turn toward estrangement, desire, social judgment, and the unsettling freedom of facing an indifferent universe.

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Track List

20 songs

1

Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence

Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing The Piano

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2

Bibo no Aozora

Ryuichi Sakamoto · Playing the Piano 12122020

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3

La noyée

Yann Tiersen · My sentimental movie collection – Filmowa rapsodia na akordeon i orkiestrę

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4

Porz Goret

Yann Tiersen · EUSA

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5

Take Five

The Dave Brubeck Quartet · Time Out

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6

Flamenco Sketches

Miles Davis · The Complete Miles Davis Featuring John Coltrane

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7

Waltz For Debby

Bill Evans · New Jazz Conceptions

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8

Greenland

Emancipator · Safe in the Steep Cliffs

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9

Halving The Compass

Helios · Eingya

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10

Requiem for Dying Mothers, Pt. 2

Stars Of The Lid · The Tired Sounds of Stars of the Lid

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11

dlp 1.1

William Basinski · The Disintegration Loops (Remastered)

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12

Nuages

Django Reinhardt · Electric Django: Radio Recordings 1947

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13

Minor Swing

Django Reinhardt · Djangologie Vol6 / 1937

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14

Midnight Cowboy

John Barry · The Ultimate John Barry

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15

Theme from "A Summer Place"

Percy Faith · Theme from "A Summer Place" (Remastered)

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16

Le métèque

Georges Moustaki · Le métèque

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17

Les singes

Jacques Brel · 50 Plus Belles Chansons

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18

L'aigle noir

Barbara · L'Aigle Noir

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19

Initials B.B.

Serge Gainsbourg · Initials B.B.

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20

Avec le temps

Léo Ferré · 50 Plus Belles Chansons

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