The Resource The Meursault investigation, Kamel Daoud ; translated by John Cullen
The Meursault investigation, Kamel Daoud ; translated by John Cullen
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- Summary
- "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."--
- Language
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- eng
- fre
- eng
- Extent
- 143 pages
- Note
- "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
- Isbn
- 9781590517512
- Label
- The Meursault investigation
- Title
- The Meursault investigation
- Statement of responsibility
- Kamel Daoud ; translated by John Cullen
- Language
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- eng
- fre
- eng
- Summary
- "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."--
- Award
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- Library Journal Best Books 2015.
- New York Times Notable Book, 2015.
- Assigning source
- Provided by publisher
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- 10430645
- Cataloging source
- DLC
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- Daoud, Kamel
- Dewey number
- 843/.92
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- PQ3989.3.D365
- LC item number
- M4813 2015
- Literary form
- fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
- 1942-
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- Cullen, John
- http://library.link/vocab/resourcePreferred
- True
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Arabs
- Camus, Albert
- Algeria
- Target audience
- adult
- Label
- The Meursault investigation, Kamel Daoud ; translated by John Cullen
- Note
- "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
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- volume
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 143 pages
- Isbn
- 9781590517512
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 2015010736
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 904036613
- (OCoLC)904036613
- Label
- The Meursault investigation, Kamel Daoud ; translated by John Cullen
- Note
- "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
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Dimensions
- 22 cm
- Extent
- 143 pages
- Isbn
- 9781590517512
- Isbn Type
- (paperback)
- Lccn
- 2015010736
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- System control number
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- 904036613
- (OCoLC)904036613
Subject
- trueFlashbacks
- trueAlgeria
- Algeria -- Fiction
- Arabs -- Fiction
- trueBars (Drinking establishments)
- trueBrothers -- Death
- Camus, Albert, 1913-1960 -- Fiction
- trueIdentity (Psychology)
- trueLoneliness in men
- trueMothers and sons
- Political fiction
- truePostcolonialism
- Psychological fiction
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