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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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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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Title	:	The Meursault Investigation
Author	:	Kamel Daoud
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Deluxe 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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"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.

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

This is a clever reworking of Camus's L'Étranger from the perspective of an Algerian Arab post independence. It is many years since I read that book but I remember enough about it to see what Daoud is doing.The somewhat unreliable narrator tells his story to a stranger in a bar (a technique Camus himself used in The Fall). He claims to be the brother of Musa, the unnamed Arab that Meursault killed in the original book. Although the narrator and Meursault have polar opposite perspectives on

Pride & Prejudice from the point of view of the servants? Blah. I'd rather read non-fiction on the subject, and anyway Austen and C19th history aren't my favourites. Classical mythology retellings narrated by the wives? Been sick of the very idea since at least 2000. And they all seem to be saying the same sodding thing. As with certain books on walking, imagining my own version during the course of an activity - even if I couldn't write it down as well as Robert Macfarlane - was at times

Love is a heavenly beast that scares hell out of me. I watch it devour people, two by two; it fascinates people with the lure of eternity, shuts them up in a sort of cocoon, lifts them up to heaven, and drops their carcasses back to earth like peels. Why? Why? Why ?Why this thing has been written? Why he used Albert Camus' brilliant novel 'The Stranger' as a crutch.I didn't like it in fact it was one of the most irritating books I ever read. Musa, the Arab (who was killed in 'The Stranger')

After struggling to the half way mark I looked for solace in the goodreads reviews and I found it! I think I'll make it to the end. The key, I learned, is not to worry too much about the narrative structure or to put it more simply: truth. Now that I think about it, why would I even try to look for truth in a fictional meta-narrative on another piece of fiction? I think it's partly because the blurbs falsely sell this as "The Stranger" from the point of view of the victim. And because "The