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020			_a9781590517512
050	0	0	_aPQ3989.3.D365 _bM4813 2015
082	1		_aFIC DAO _2
100	1		_aDaoud, Kamel
245	1	4	_aThe Meursault investigation ; _ba novel _c/ Kamel Daoud ; translated from the French by John Cullen.
260			_aNew York _b: Other Press _c, 2015
300			_a143 p. _c; 22 cm
520			_aThis 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. The Mersault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice.
546			_aTranslated from the French to English.
600	1	4	_aCamus, Albert _d(1913 - 1960) _t. Étranger _v--Fiction
650		4	_aArabs _v--Fiction
651		4	_aAlgeria _x-Fiction
655		4	_aPsychological fiction
655		4	_aPolitical fiction
700	1		_aCullen, John _d(, 1942-)
942			_cMO
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