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Meursault Case Investigation
General Fiction默尔索案调查
(algeria) Kamal Daoud
"Today, mother died. Or yesterday, I don't know." Camus wrote this famous sentence at the beginning of his first novel "The Stranger" in 1942. Seventy years later, Algerian writer Kamal Daoud wrote in the opening chapter of his first novel "The Meursault Case": "Today, mother is still alive." Camus's protagonist is named Meursault. He killed an Arab on the beach and was tried. The man he killed did not even have a name in the book, nor did he say a word. Kamal Daoud launched his investigation, and his protagonist was the victim's brother. For the first time, the victim had a name, and his name was Musa; for seventy years, only his brother and mother remembered him, searched for evidence, and preserved clues about him. What kind of person was he, and what kind of story happened to him?
"Today, mother died. Or yesterday, I don't know." Camus wrote this famous sentence at the beginning of his first novel "The Stranger" in 1942. Seventy years later, Algerian writer Kamal Daoud wrote in the opening chapter of his first novel "The Meursault Case": "Today, mother is still alive." Camus's protagonist is named Meursault. He killed an Arab on the beach and was tried. The man he killed did not even have a name in the book, nor did he say a word. Kamal Daoud launched his investigation, and his protagonist was the victim's brother. For the first time, the victim had a name, and his name was Musa; for seventy years, only his brother and mother remembered him, searched for evidence, and preserved clues about him. What kind of person was he, and what kind of story happened to him?