“L’étranger†aims to explore the subconscious of a kind of contemporary nomadism, in which the subject creates a liquid memory with no reference points and continues to construct and deconstruct “capsules de temps†familiar to him, in a continuous geographical and emotional uprooting. In the context of a disturbing alienation regarding the roots and the family (the Freudian “unheimlichâ€), the individual-author confuses the world and himself, so the “good return†is nowhere