Give Kamel Daoud credit for audacity. In his debut novel, “The Meursault Investigation,” the Algerian journalist goes head-to-head with a pillar of 20th century literature: Albert Camus’ existential ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Famously, O'Brien argued that the central situation in The Outsider was a fantasy and that Camus misread the colonial situation when he ...

Kamel Daoud, author of “The Meursault Investigation” and columnist for the Algerian paper Le Quotidien d’Oran, will speak at Yale on Monday, Nov. 9 as a Poynter Fellow in Journalism. “Meursault et ...

“The Meursault Investigation: A Novel” by Kamel Daoud, translated by John Cullen (Other Press, 160 pages, $14.95, paperback) It is one of the best-read novels of the 20th century, depicting the ...

Some ideas are so clever it's a wonder no one has thought of them before. Case in point: Algerian writer Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation, a response to Albert Camus' The Stranger, written ...

The most notorious literary killing of the 20th century takes place on a deserted beach near Algiers, at two o'clock in the afternoon. The murderer in Albert Camus' first novel, the 1942 classic The ...

A few things spring to mind at the mention of Algeria, and I'd venture that these won't be too different for most people, especially those of us from colonies that became independent not too long ago.

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The story unfolds as a suspenseful monologue in which the narrator, Harun, sitting in a bar in Oran, addresses an ...

The title alone would seem to give the game away, the game being the author’s intention of challenging a classic novel. At best it could be a contrived exercise in literary deconstruction, at worst a ...

Retelling Camus’s The Outsider through Arab eyes, this debut novel develops a specifically Algerian take on the absurd condition In The Outsider, Albert Camus’s tale of alienation, ennui and ruthless ...

Give Kamel Daoud credit for audacity. In his debut novel, “The Meursault Investigation,” the Algerian journalist goes head-to-head with a pillar of 20th century literature: Albert Camus’ existential ...