Algeria 🇩🇿 : The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
Translated from French by John Cullen and published by Other Press
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.
A fascinating approach to post-colonial literature, this novel is a reinterpretation of Albert Camus' novel 'The Stranger' which centres "The Arab" who Meursault murders. I initially read this book as part of a module on Contemporary Middle Eastern Fiction that I did as part of my BA, and it was one of my favourite books from the module, and was one of the books that prompted me to start this very reading blog.
Image: still from The Stranger (1967)
