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008 150320s2015 nyu 000 1 eng
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020 $a9781590517512 (paperback)
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100 1 $aDaoud, Kamel.
240 10 $aMeursault, contre-enquête.$lEnglish
245 14 $aThe Meursault investigation /$cKamel Daoud ; translated from the French by John Cullen.
264 1 $aNew York :$bOther Press,$c[2015]
300 $a143 pages ;$c22 cm.
336 $atext$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$2rdamedia
338 $avolume$2rdacarrier
520 $a"This response to Camus's The Stranger is at once a love story and a political manifesto about post-colonial Algeria, Islam, and the irrelevance of Arab lives. He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name--Musa--and describes the events that led to Musa's casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach. Harun is an old man tormented by frustration. In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his solitude, on his anger with men desperate for a god, and on his disarray when faced with a country that has so disappointed him. A stranger among his own people, he wants to be granted, finally, the right to die. The Stranger is of course central to Daoud's novel, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Mersault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice."--$cProvided by publisher.
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.
650 0 $aArabs$vFiction.
600 10 $aCamus, Albert,$d1913-1960.$tÉtranger$vFiction.
651 0 $aAlgeria$vFiction.
650 7 $aLITERARY COLLECTIONS / Middle Eastern.$2bisacsh
650 7 $aFICTION / Literary.$2bisacsh
655 0 $aPsychological fiction.
655 0 $aPolitical fiction.
700 1 $aCullen, John,$d1942-$etranslator.
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852 00 $bglx$hPQ3989.3.D365$iM4813 2015