by Kamel Daoud
ISBN: 9782330033729
He is the brother of the "Arab" killed by a certain Meursault, whose crime is recounted in a famous 20th century novel.
Seventy years after the events, Haroun, who since childhood has lived in the shadows and the memory of the absent, is not resigned to leaving it in anonymity: he gives a name and a story to Moussa, who died by chance on a too sunny beach. Haroun is an old man tormented by frustration.
Night after night, in a bar in Oran, he ruminates on his loneliness, his anger against men who need a god so much, his dismay in the face of a country that has disappointed him. A stranger among his family, he would like to die at last ...
Homage in the form of a counterpoint to Albert Camus' The Stranger, Meursault, counter-investigation dizzily plays with doubles and pretenses to evoke the question of identity. By applying this reflection to contemporary Algeria, Kamel Daoud, known for his controversial articles, this time chooses literature to translate the complexity of the heritages which condition the present.
160 pages.
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Date of Publication: 07/05/2014