000			02082cam a2200229 i 4500
005			20160210115609.0
008			150320s2015 nyu 000 1 eng
020			_a9781590517512 (paperback)
041	1		_aeng
082	0	0	_a843.92 _bDAO
100	1		_aDaoud, Kamel, _99198
245	1	4	_aThe Meursault investigation / _cKamel Daoud ; translated from the French by John Cullen.
300			_a143 pages ;
500			_a"Originally published in French as Meursault, contre-enquête by Éditions Barzakh in Algeria in 2013, and by Actes Sud in France in 2014" -- Verso title page.
520			_a"This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. 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. Harun is an old man tormented by frustration. In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his solitude, 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 novel, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Mersault 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."--
650		0	_aArabs _91808
650		7	_aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern. _99199
650		7	_aFICTION / Literary. _97268
700	1		_aCullen, John, _99200
856	4	2	_u9781590517512.jpg
942			_cBK
999			_c29951 _d29951