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Meursault, the narrator of camuss letranger, is one of the most famous of all characters in french fiction. In kamel daouds the meursault investigation, a tourdeforce reimagining of camuss the outsider, from the point of view of the mute arab victims, the author seeks not to reindict the colonizing french but to relate all the disappointments that the dream of free algeria has produced for the natives, partic. The somewhat unreliable narrator tells his story to a stranger in a bar a technique camus himself used in the fall. Meursault, contreenquete kamel daoud librairie numerique. Pdf solidarity and the absurd in kamel daouds meursault, contre.
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In his impressive novel the meursault investigation, algerian author kamel daoud reopens the case of one of the most famous murders in literary history. Daouds novel is a counterinvestigation, contreenquete a rewriting, rather as jean rhys rewrote jane eyre, but unlike rhyss novel, the story is told with sympathy for the narrator and for camus. Algerian journalist kamel daoud s first novel and winner of the prestigious prix goncourt is about the anonymous arab murdered halfway through camus novel by his protagonist, meursault. There are multiple format available for you to choose pdf.
The meursault investigation, by kamel daoud the new. Meursault, contreenquete by kamel daoud world literature today. He claims to be the brother of musa, the unnamed arab that meursault. God, religion, faith and murder all mix in the meursault investigation by kamel daoud, a novel about belief and identity. It is a retelling of albert camuss 1942 novel, the stranger. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide. Buy kamel daoud ebooks to read online or download in pdf or epub on your pc, tablet or mobile device.
His book lends a voice to the arab murder victim in albert camus the stranger and is also an angry reckoning with contemporary algeria. The meursault investigation indicts meursault and camus, but offers little redemption, either. Roman romans, nouvelles, recits by kamel daoud isbn. Kamel daouds meursault, contreenquete by suzanne ruta the algerian novelist and journalist kamel daoud publishes a pithy, fastpaced critique of algerian society five times a week in the frenchlanguage daily quotidien doran, and on facebook. Meursault, contreenquete is the first novel by algerian writer and journalist kamel daoud.
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