Abstract:Meursault, contre-enquête is a reworking and rereading of L’Étranger. If, on the one hand, it is an admiring assessment of Camus’s novel, on the other hand, it is a condemnation of the French writer and his colonizing compatriots. Moreover, it is a meditation on narrative — narrated, nonnarrated, undernarrated, overnarrated — and its possibilities which helps to situate Kamel Daoud’s novel and which sheds light on the functioning of the narrative form itself.
