The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud
Author in Depth: Albert Camus The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud I've taken a brief diversion from Camus' work itself to read this book that uses The Stranger as a starting point for an investigation of Algerian colonialism. It was interesting and enlightening. *** “What can I tell you, Mr. Investigator, about a crime committed in a book?” The Meursault Investigation takes as its beginning a central point of The Stranger : the murder of “an Arab'' by Meursault. This man is a minor character and unnamed, but is a crucial event in Meursault’s story, murdered for no real reason: only as an instrument to tell the theory of The Absurd. The narrator of The Meursault Investigation is the murdered man’s brother Harun, who tells us that his brother was named Musa. In the aftermath of Musa’s murder, Harun and his mother are left knowing nothing about the murder at all, and the book details Hamud’s life after the murder. His brother’s death reverberates through his l
