Kamel Daoud

A New York Times Notable Book of 2015 -- Michiko Kakutani, The Top Books of 2015, New York Times -- TIME Magazine Top Ten Books of 2015 -- Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year -- Financial Times Best Books of the Year "A tour-de-force reimagining of Camus's The Stranger, from the point of view of the mute Arab victims." --The New Yorker He was the brother of "the Arab" killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Seventy years after that event, Harun, who has lived since childhood in the shadow of his sibling's memory, refuses to let him remain anonymous: he gives his brother a story and a name--Musa--and describes the events that led to Musa's casual murder on a dazzlingly sunny beach. In a bar in Oran, night after night, he ruminates on his solitude, on his broken heart, on his anger with men desperate for a god, and on his disarray when faced with a country that has so disappointed him. A stranger among his own people, he wants to be granted, finally, the right to die. The Stranger is of course central to Daoud's story, in which he both endorses and criticizes one of the most famous novels in the world. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice.

The Meursault Investigation

Cet homme qui soliloque dans un bar, nuit après nuit, c’est le frère de l’Arabe tué par un certain Meursault dans un célèbre roman du XXe siècle. Soixante-dix ans après les faits, rage et frustration inentamées, le vieillard rend un nom et une histoire au mort resté "l'Arabe" jusqu'ici. Un roman profond sur les héritages qui conditionnent le présent et sur le pouvoir exceptionnel de la littérature pour dire le réel. Voir Kamel Daoud parle de son livre "Meursault, contre-enquête"

Meursault, contre-enquête

Shortlisted for the Prix Goncourt Winner of the Goncourt du Premier Roman Winner of the Prix des Cinq Continents Winner of the Prix François Mauriac THE NOVEL THAT HAS TAKEN THE INTERNATIONAL LITERARY WORLD BY STORM He was the brother of 'the Arab' killed by the infamous Meursault, the antihero of Camus's classic novel. Angry at the world and his own unending solitude, he resolves to bring his brother out of obscurity by giving him a name - Musa - and a voice, and by describing the events that led to his senseless murder on a dazzling Algerian beach. A worthy complement to its great predecessor, The Meursault Investigation is not only a profound meditation on Arab identity and the disastrous effects of colonialism in Algeria, but also a stunning work of literature in its own right, told in a unique and affecting voice.

Houris

Moussa of de dood van een Arabier / druk 1

Fallet Meursault

Zabor

Meursault, contre-enquete

A fable, parable, and confession, the second novel from the acclaimed author of The Meursault Investigation pays homage to the essential need for fiction and to the freedom from tradition afforded by an adopted language. Having lost his mother and been shunned by his father, Zabor grows up in the company of books, which teach him a new language. Ever since he can remember, he has been convinced that he has a gift: if he writes, he will stave off death; those captured in the sentences of his notebooks will live longer. Like a kind of inverted Scheherazade saving his fellow men, he experiments night after night with the delirious power of the imagination. Then, one night, his estranged half brother and the other relatives who would disown him come knocking at the door: his father is going to die and perhaps only Zabor is capable of delaying that fateful moment. Sitting next to the father who has ostracized him, the son writes compulsively, retracing an existence characterized by strangeness, abandonment, and humiliation, but also by wondrous encounters with fictional worlds that he alone in the entire village can access.

Zabor, Or the Psalms

Beschimpt en verstoten vindt een Algerijnse jongeman in zijn schrijversroeping de weg naar verlichting en overleving.

De inmiddels hoogbejaarde broer van de in 'De vreemdeling' (1942) van Albert Camus (1913-1960) op het strand van Algiers vermoorde 'Arabier' lucht zijn hart over alle verwarring sindsdien.

Moussa, of De dood van een Arabier

翻案調查

異鄉人

"Journaliste depuis une vingtaine d'années, Kamel Daoud a tenu pendant quinze ans dans Le Quotidien d'Oran la chronique la plus lue d'Algérie, tout en collaborant à divers médias en ligne et en écrivant occasionnellement pour la presse étrangère. Concernant la période 2010-2016, il a ainsi signé près de deux mille textes d'abord destinés au public algérien puis, sa notoriété grandissant, de plus en plus lus dans le monde entier, dont cent quatre-vingt-deux ont été retenus pour ce recueil. Ce rythme effréné donne son souffle et son esthétique à l'ensemble. Qu'il brocarde l'islam politique ou la déliquescence du régime algérien, qu'il embrasse l'espoir suscité par les révolutions arabes ou qu'il défende la cause des femmes, c'est d'une plume originale, imagée, percutante et engagée. Car Kamel Daoud a érigé la chronique en exercice de style, en art de tendre un miroir à ses contemporains tout en s'interrogeant jour après jour, avec ou malgré l'actualité, sur l'homme, les dieux et les libertés."--Page 4 of cover.

chroniques 2010-2016

Mes indépendances

“Ti riassumo la storia prima di raccontartela: un uomo che sa scrivere uccide un arabo che quel giorno non ha neppure un nome – quasi l’avesse lasciato appeso a un chiodo prima di entrare in scena –, e poi comincia a spiegare che è tutta colpa di un Dio che non esiste e di ciò che ha capito sotto il sole e per il fatto che la salsedine lo costringe a chiudere gli occhi.Perciò l’omicidio rimane un atto assolutamente impunito e non è un delitto poiché non esiste legge fra mezzogiorno e le due, fra lui e Zoudj, fra Meursault e Moussa. E in seguito, per settant’anni, tutti si sono adoperati a fare sparire in gran fretta il corpo della vittima, a trasformare i luoghi dell’omicidio in un museo immateriale e a discorrere sul significato del nome dell’assassino.Che cosa significa Meursault? “Morto solo”? “Morto sciocco”? “Non muore mai”? Per mio fratello, invece, in tutta questa storia non è stata spesa neppure una parola. E tu, come tutti quelli prima di te, hai preso una cantonata.L’assurdo lo portiamo sulle spalle o nel ventre delle nostre terre io e mio fratello, non quello là.”VINCITORE DEL PRIX GONCOURT DU PREMIER ROMAN 2015

Il caso Meursault

Dieser Roman gibt dem namenlosen Toten aus »Der Fremde« von Camus ein Gesicht Ein Roman aus Algerien, der um die Welt geht: in Frankreich ein Riesenbestseller, in den USA und England als literarische Sensation gefeiert, jetzt in deutscher Übersetzung. Die Geschichte des namenlosen Arabers aus Camus’ weltberühmtem Roman »Der Fremde« – erzählt von dessen Bruder. Der alte Mann, der Nacht für Nacht in einer Bar in Oran seine Geschichte erzählt, ist der Bruder jenes Arabers, der 1942 von einem gewissen Meursault am Strand von Algier erschossen wurde – in einem der berühmtesten Romane des 20. Jahrhunderts. 70 Jahre später, mit all dem Ärger, der Angst und Frustration eines Lebens im Schatten dieses Todes, gibt der alte Mann seinem Bruder seinen Namen zurück. Der Araber aus Camus’ Roman »Der Fremde« bekommt so eine Identität und eine Geschichte. Eine Geschichte, die untrennbar mit der Algeriens verknüpft ist und doch gleichzeitig so berührend und persönlich, dass man das Buch nicht mehr aus der Hand legen kann. Ein großer Roman darüber, wie die Vergangenheit unsere Gegenwart prägt, und über die ungebrochene Kraft der Literatur, eine tiefere Erkenntnis, eine verborgene Wahrheit ans Licht zu bringen. Das Buch gilt jetzt schon als Klassiker – gleichwertig zu Camus’ Roman: »Ein großartiger Roman. In Zukunft wird man ›Der Fremde‹ und ›Der Fall Meursault – eine Gegendarstellung‹ nebeneinander lesen.« Le monde des livres

Roman

Der Fall Meursault - eine Gegendarstellung

This engaging collection of essays showcases the extraordinary passion, insight, and range of Kamel Daoud, bestselling author of The Meursault Investigation. Kamel Daoud has been a journalist for more than twenty years, writing the most-read column in Algeria, in Le Quotidien d'Oran, while also collaborating on various online media and contributing to foreign publications such as the New York Times. During the 2010-2016 period, he put his name to almost two thousand texts--first intended for the Algerian public, then read more and more throughout the world as his reputation grew. Whether he is criticizing political Islam or the decline of the Algerian regime, embracing the hope kindled by Arab revolutions or defending women's rights, Daoud does so in his own inimitable style: at once poetic and provocative, he captures his devoted followers with fresh, counterintuitive arguments about the nature of humanity, religion, and liberty.

Selected Columns, 2010-2016

Chroniques

Éléonore Quinaux

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