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novel by Kamel Daoud

The Meursault Investigation (French: Meursault, contre-enquête) is the first novel by Algerian writer and journalist Kamel Daoud.

It is a retelling of Albert Camus' novel, The Stranger. First published in Algeria by Barzakh Editions in October , it was reissued in France by Actes Sud (May ).

In his first novel, The Meursault Investigation, he reworks a text that almost everybody has to study in school: The Stranger by Albert Camus.

In his first novel, The Meursault Investigation, he reworks a text that almost everybody has to study in school: The Stranger by Albert Camus.

It's a well-written endlessly fascinating look at Algerian-Arab identity with a narrative that weaves in and out of Camus' work but in the end stands alone as.

Kamel Daoud (born June 17, , Mostaganem, Algeria) is an Algerian writer and journalist who won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman for his novel Meursault.

Kamel Daoud's novel, «The Meursault Investigation» won several award.

The Meursault Investigation (French: Meursault, contre-enquête) is the first novel by Algerian writer and journalist Kamel Daoud.

Its publication in France was followed by nominations for many prizes and awards.

Relationship to Camus' The Stranger

Meursault, the protagonist of Albert Camus' novel The Stranger, murders a character known only as "the Arab", saying, in his trial, that the murder was a meaningless gesture caused by sunstroke or God's absence.

Camus left Meursault's victim nameless, but Kamel Daoud gives him a name: Musa. The Meursault Investigation revisits these events, but from the point of view of Harun, Musa's brother.

Giving a name to Meursault's nameless victim, for Daoud, is about more than just revisiting a minor character.

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