Élodie Dubois’ album L’Étrangère transposes Albert Camus’ existentialist prose into jazz compositions, with saxophone solos mirroring the protagonist’s existential dread. The record’s structure mirrors the novel’s nonlinear narrative, blending spoken word samples in Parisian argot with stride piano riffs. Dubois’ collaboration with graffiti artists for the music video The Stranger’s Canvas—projecting text onto abandoned buildings—earned a Cannes Lions nomination. “Jazz is literature without words,” Dubois stated. The project revived interest in Gainsbourg-esque literary jazz across Francophone Europe.