Other Press, June 2, 2015.
‘The Meursault Investigation is a companion piece to L'étranger. Harun Uld el … On the book jacket of this novel, a reviewer writes that The Meursault Investigation is "a worthy complement to its great predecessor" [Albert Camus' The Stranger]. Published in 2013, The Meursault Investigation is a literary fiction novel by Kamel Daoud.

Yes, as we have discussed before, peop As my childbearing years drew to a close, I had a recurrent dream. Then he explains that his murder is “the fault of a God who doesn’t exist,” and he committed it as part of an existential crisis, and also … God, religion, faith and murder all mix in The Meursault Investigation by Kamel Daoud, a novel about belief and identity. Daoud intentionally, emphatically twins the two...A fine piece of writing, The Meursault Investigation is unquestionably a significant work, and will deservedly be widely read.’ The Complete Review Kindle. Meursault kills an Arab who, in his novel, apparently lacks a name. Daoud's novel lacks the solid, strong existential and absurdist underpinnings of Camus's work. The Meursault Investigation. The following version of the novel was used to create this study guide: Daoud, Kamel.
—San Francisco Gate "For its incandescence, its precision of phrase and description, and its cross-cultural significance, The Meursault Investigation is … "With The Meursault Investigation, [Kamel] Daoud has achieved the near impossible: a retelling of a classic that consistently measures up." It is a retelling of Albert Camus’ 1942 novel The Stranger, which follows a man named Meursault who casually murders a victim called only “the Arab” and blames his actions on the midday heat. I wouldn't go that far. Harun sketches out Meursault ’s story for the interlocutor.

In The Meursault Investigation, the author builds on the Algerian conceit that The Stranger was not fiction at all, but rather a true story of a murder, a story written by the murderer, Meursault.