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The Meursault Investigation

novel by Daoud
Also known as: “Meursault, contre-enquête”
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The Meursault Investigation is a 2013 novel by Algerian writer Kamel Daoud. It serves as a fictional "counterinvestigation" or retelling of Albert Camus's 1942 novel, The Stranger.12

The novel is narrated by the imagined brother of the unnamed Arab man senselessly killed by Meursault in Camus's original work. Daoud's narrative offers a dual portrait of the human condition, reenvisioning Camus's themes. The book explores the impact of colonialism and societal alienation, with the narrator vehemently rebuking religion and contemporary Algerian society. This led to controversy and a fatwa against Daoud from some Islamists. The Meursault Investigation won the Prix Goncourt du Premier Roman and other awards.1

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  3. Albert Camus: Top Questions

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