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Original Title:	Meursault, contre-enquête
ISBN:	1590517512 (ISBN13: 9781590517512)
Edition Language:	English URL https://oneworld-publications.com/the-meursault-investigation-pb.html
Literary Awards:	BTBA Best Translated Book Award Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2016), Prix des cinq continents de la Francophonie (2014), Oxford-Weidenfeld Translation Prize Nominee for John Cullen (2016), Prix François-Mauriac (2014), Prix Goncourt du premier roman (2015)

The Meursault Investigation Paperback | Pages: 143 pages

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Title	:	The Meursault Investigation
Author	:	Kamel Daoud
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 143 pages
Published	:	June 2nd 2015 by Other Press (first published October 2013)
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Africa. Northern Africa. Algeria. France. Literature. Novels

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He was the brother of “the Arab” killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus’s classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling’s memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name—Musa—and describes the events that led to Musa’s casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach.

In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his solitude, on his broken heart, on his anger with men desperate for a god, and on his disarray when faced with a country that has so disappointed him. A stranger among his own people, he wants to be granted, finally, the right to die.

The Stranger is of course central to Daoud’s story, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice.

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THE MEURASAULT INVESTIGATION by Kamel Daoud reminded me of the works of Albert Camus, not because the novel is a response to the murder of the nameless Arab in Camus THE STRANGER, or even that the brother of the murdered sibling narrates the book in the monologue structure taken from a later Camus novel, THE FALL, but in its sensual and humanistic prose, which is reminiscent of Camus writings about his native Algiers. But the book is about Camus first and most famous novel, taking the murder

Night after night, a drunk old man in an Oran cafe rambles on to a visitor about his life haunted by the ghost of his murdered brother. Harun's brother was shot on the beach by a roumi, a Frenchman, in 1942 when Harun was seven years old. His brother's body was never found. Twenty years after his brother's death, Harun and his mother learned that his brother's death became the subject of a world-famous novel, a novel in which the murderer, Meursault, and his disaffected manner took center stage

"Here is where everything happenedCe que je voudrais raconter Reste en pays étranger Here is where everything happened Sur mon dos marqué d'une croix Pose ta main, souviens-toi Here is where everything happened À force-force de lutter Je ne suis que géométries"Christine and the Queens. "Here"---The book has been amply reviewed. Just a few of my thoughts. This is a book well worth reading but only after having read "L'étranger". But don't confuse this as a sequel. It's a contre-enquête.

"Mamas still alive today, but whats the point?"Ever had second thoughts about picking a book reading few initial chapters and let it overwhelm, astound and swallow you completely in the end? Well, my first time.I think this is a powerful literature considered an anti thesis, response or a companion to Albert Camus' The Stranger. Written in the narration style heavily resembling 'The Fall', the narrator Harun, the brother of Musa, the arab who was murdered by Meursault, goes on rambling and

This book is a take-off from Camuss classic novel The Stranger. The story is told by the brother of the Arab we never knew his name from Camus - killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camuss novel. The brother, now in his late 70s, hangs out drinking wine in a bar night after night. He tells us his brothers name was Musa and he tells us the things Camus never told us How old was he? Was he married? Kids? What kind of job did he have? He describes the events that led to Musas

Its not an easy feat to take a classic novel Albert Camuss The Outsider, the ultimate tale of alienation and turn it on its ear, telling it from the perspective of the brother of the nameless Arab. But Kamel Daoud does so masterfully, bellying the fact that this is his debut novel. And even though I havent read The Outsider since college days, the images came flooding back to me, from the very first sentence (Mamas still alive today, as opposed to The Outsiders Mama died today.)Not unlike

Sadly I found this rather disappointing. It felt kind of all over the place and sooo repetitive. Daoud's writing is very elegant, but I couldn't seem to get to the crux of the story. So in the end it just felt like a monologue of the main character's mourning(and whining) and unfortunately, it just never quite achieved lift-off in that sense.Find more reviews and bookish fun at http://www.princessandpen.com