Kamel Daoud
Paperback | Pages: 143 pages Rating: 3.49 | 5626 Users | 912 Reviews
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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) |
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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 | : | 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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Ratings: 3.49 From 5626 Users | 912 ReviewsEvaluate Containing Books The Meursault Investigation
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 "ThePride & 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
"Mama's still alive today."If you read this book, then I urge you to do so on the heels of reading, or re-reading, The Stranger. Otherwise, it would be like overhearing only the one side of a telephone conversation you can then only guess at the meaning and significance of what you hear. The brilliance of this is how he simultaneously submerges and intertwines his story with Camus, as if that fiction was a real-life documentary, and at the same time stands outside the narration, conversing with
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
"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.
Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life a coiling vital principle would be! And how many dreams the leftward oriented shell, or one that did not conform to the rotation of its species, would inspire! Gaston Bachelard, The Poetics of Space Reading Kamel Daoud's retelling, The Meursault Investigation, translated from the French, of Harun's memory of his brother's death, by el-roumi, the foreigner,
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