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beemini 's review for:
The Meursault Investigation
by Kamel Daoud
A fascinating rebuttal to The Stranger from the point of view of the family of "the Arab." It addressed many of the points I was dissatisfied with in the Stranger (the lack of humanity given to the Arab victim and the Arabs in general, the bizarre sympathy many readers feel with Meursault, putting his hurt feelings over those of the murder victim, etc.) Camus' use of language to create sympathy is contrasted with the actual nihilist content of The Stranger. Daoud creates a sense of Algerian life and political history from the mid 20th century to now that I was interested to learn about.