The Meursault Investigation

Posted on 13 February 2018 by Kamel Daoud

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. Free Download [ The Meursault Investigation ] By [ Kamel Daoud ] – kino-fada.fr THE TRUE LITERARY EVENT OF THE YEAR sorry Harper LeeT he absurdity of my condition, which consisted in pushing a corpse to the top of a hill before it rolled down, endlessly.The curtain opening lines of Algerian journalist Kamel Daoud s The Meursault Investigation, Mama s still alive today, reveal a stage set for a pastiche of reproach and rapprochement towards Albert Camus The Stranger which opens with Maman died today. The Stranger, in which Camus anti hero is tried for shooting a na THE TRUE LITERARY E...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 wi 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 you the reader Listener drinking companionI m sure you re like everyone else, you ve read the tale as told by the man who wrote it He writes so well that his words are like precious stones, jewels cut with the utmost precision A man very strict about shades of meaning, your hero was he practically required them to be mathema...The short review Some good writing, but ultimately a letdown.The details I got all excited when I read Musa, the snippet of Meursault that was excerpted in The New Yorker. Not only was it very well written, but I d just reread The Stranger and this is a retelling of that story from the point of view of the brother of the man who was shot I thought this book would be a lot like Jean Rhys Wide Sargasso Sea, which is a brilliant retelling of Jane Eyre from the madwoman s perspective ...In the case of The Meursault Investigation, I found this sequel response, of sorts,satisfying and complete than the famed The Stranger The premise of giving a name and identity to that unknown Arab killed on the beach is startlingly obvious and well done The concepts of Arab identity and colonialism in Algeria are part of the fabric of this novel and become part of Musa s life and death, Musa being ...This novel feels like less of an expository read andof a monologue Told in a tight, almost claustrophobic, first person, it is the story of Camus The Stranger from the viewpoint of the murdered man s younger brother Here, the victim is no longer an anonymous Arab, but has a name, Musa, Moses and a family who mourned his loss I would...I have a love hate relationship with this book Harun, the first person protagonist, is blunt in his anger with the world, with himself and his mother, with Albert Camus and the admirers of The Stranger I decided to be just as blunt in my response I am sure he will appreciate a little bit of honesty.THE HATE CONNECTION Robert, another reviewer of the book stated in a comment,all in allsuccessful as a political statement or literary riposte than a novel That is how I experienced I have a love hate relationship with this book Harun, the first person protagonist, is blunt in his anger with the world, with himself and his mother, with Albert Camus and the admirers of The Stranger I decided to be just as blunt in my response I am sure he will appreciate a little bit of honesty.THE HATE CONNECTION Robert, another reviewer of the book stated in a comment,all in allsuccessful as a political statement or literary riposte than a novel That is how I experienced this book.Daoud used The Stranger, written by Albert Camus, to kick start his own writing career by attaching his book to this famous, controversial work of the Franco Algerian author He wrote an unauthorized sequel to The Stranger,sort of Without this attachment to this famous work, his own wo...Un caso d insolazione Un grande romanzo che riscrive Lo straniero di Camus dal punto di vista delle vittime arabe The New Yorker.Interessante esordio di uno scrittore arabo di lingua francese, recente vincitore del Premio Goncourt opera prima.Io narrante il fratello dell arabo ucciso da Meurssault nell opera Lo straniero di Camus, che lui chiama, forse con una sfumatura polemica, Il libro di Albert Meursault.Gi l icipit si pone, con puntuta ironia in contrapposizione al romanzo Lo Un caso d insolazione Un grande romanzo che riscrive Lo straniero di Camus dal punto di vista delle vittime arabe The New Yorker.Interessante esordio di uno scrittore arabo di lingua francese, recente vincitore del Premio Goncourt opera prima.Io narrante il fratello dell arabo ucciso da Meurssault nell opera Lo straniero di Camus, che lui chiama, forse con una sfumatura polemica, Il libro di Albert Meursault.Gi l icipit si pone, con puntuta ironia in contrapposizione al romanzo Lo straniero Oggi la mamma ancora viva Non dice pi niente, ma potrebbe raccontare molte cose.Nel libro di Camus non c una parola sul corpo dell assassinato, dopo il tragico fatto E un omissione di una violenza scandalosa, non trovi , domanda il nostro narratore , che s indigna ulteriormente in quanto nel testo del noto scrittore francese la parola arabo compare 25 volte, ma senza nessun nome Di nessuno di noi non gli ha dato un nome perch altrimenti mio fratello avrebbe r...Hmmm First thing to note is that to understand this book, you need to have Camus L Etranger in your recent memory I started this book before rereading L Etranger and although I liked it, I quickly realized that I needed to follow my advice above So I did and fell in love with L Etranger Unfortunately, when I came back to Meursault, although I understood it better, I liked it less I found the premise interesting the unnamed Arabe in Camus book, is given a name and a story here , I found Hmmm First thing to note is that to understand this book, you need to have Camus L Etranger in your recent memory I started this book before rereading L Etranger and although I ...As my childbearing years drew to a close, I had a recurrent dream In it, I d give birth to a tiny little baby only a few inches long that I could not remember to feed, or else I would forget it and remember later with a jolt of anxiety, or I would just lose it.In The Meursault Investigation, the author builds on the Algerian conceit that The Stranger was not fiction at all, but rather a true story of a murder, a story written by the murderer, Meursault Yes, as we have discussed before, peop As my childbearing years drew to a close, I had a recurrent dream In it, I d give birth to a...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 c...

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13 February 2018

Kamel Daoud