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 ...
“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 ...
Exclusive: "Summer of 85" breakout Benjamin Voisin plays Meursault, the walking existential black hole whose crime is not ...
Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The First Church of Christ, Scientist, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The church publishes the ...
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 ...
In 'The Stranger,' a young Frenchman shoots an Arab man on the beach, commencing a trial that captivates 1940s Algeria.
On the surface, it retells part of the story of Albert Camus’s 1942 novel The Stranger. In that book the protagonist, Meursault, shoots an Arab on a beach and is sentenced to death. The Meursault ...
Back in college English, I was taught that it was foolish to think that fictional characters have any reality beyond the page. You shouldn't speculate about how many children Lady Macbeth had or what ...
When Francois Ozon embarked on the daunting big-screen adaptation of Albert Camus’ “The Stranger” — considered one of France’s literary jewels for the last 80 years — he wanted to give it a ...