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The essay examines how the work’s physical and temporal displacement enables a re-reading of the original story, while the narrative act functions as both fiction and history. By exposing interpretive instability, the analysis argues that Daoud reveals Camus’s colonial blinders and probes the epistemological limits of increasingly inadequate postcolonial discourse. It also reviews reception and contextualizes abuses across colonial and post-independence Algeria.","Dana Strand  \nReading Camus in Oran: Kamel Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête  \nKamel Daoud’s reimagining of Camus’s L’Étranger, entitled Meursault, contreenquête, told from the perspective of the brother of the unnamed “Arab”murdered by the novel’s protagonist, has been enthusiastically received by the international media since its publication in 2013. As its title suggests, this essay highlights two essential elements of the remake: first, the physical and temporal displacement that opens the door to revisiting Camus’s story; and second, the important role the narrative act (as both story and history) plays in Daoud’s rereading. In exposing the shifting terrain of interpretation, Daoud’s novel not only reveals Camus’s colonial blinders but also tests the epistemological boundaries of what many critics see as an increasingly inadequate postcolonial discursive space. Through its clever insinuation into the very fabric of Camus’s work, the novel rewrites (without necessarily resolving) some of the significant questions posed by L’Étranger.  \nRaconté du point de vue du frère de l’Arabe anonyme tué par le protagoniste de L’Étranger, le “remake” du roman de Camus, intitulé Meursault, contre-enquête et écrit par Kamel Daoud, a connu un grand succès international après sa sortie en 2013. Comme le suggère le titre, cet essai met en relief deux éléments primordiaux du livre de Daoud: d’abord, ledéplacement physique et temporel qui ouvre la voie à la re-lecture du roman de Camus, et deuxièmement, le rôle important joué par l’actenarratif (en tant qu’“histoire” et “Histoire”) dans son appropriation. Exposant le terrain instable de l’interprétation, le roman de Daoud, tout en révélant les œillères coloniales de Camus, teste les limites épistémologiques del’espace discursif postcolonial qui, selon beaucoup de critiques, devient de plus en plus insuffisant. A force de s’insinuer ingénieusement dans la tramede l’œuvre de Camus, le roman revoit (sans pour autant résoudre) quelquesunes des questions fondamentales que pose L’Étranger.  \nKamel Daoud’s reimagining of Camus’s L’Étranger, Meursault, contre-enquête, told from the perspective of the brother of the unnamed “Arab” murdered by the novel’s protagonist, has enjoyed something of an international media  \nContemporary French Civilization , vol. 41, nos 3–4 doi:10.3828/cfc.2016.30  \nblitz since its initial publication in 2013: in the United States, the New York Times published several reviews of the book, including an essay by the Moroccan-born author Laila Lalami, as well as an interview with Daoud, and an op-ed piece by Roger Cohen (“Algeria’s Invisible Arab”); and The New Yorker ran an excerpt from the English translation. In Great Britain, favorable reviews have appeared in major media outlets, including the Guardian, whose critic compared Daoud to Beckett and Borges, concluding that “for its incandescence, its precision of phrase and description, and its cross-cultural significance, The Meursault Investigation is an instant classic”(Yassin-Kassab).  \nIn France, where the book was a finalist for the prestigious Prix Goncourt (and eventually won the Prix Goncourt du premier roman), a critic at Le Monde predicted that “À l’avenir, Meursault, contre-enquête et L’Étranger se liront tel un dyptique”(Séry). The staging in Avignon during the summer of 2015 of a theatrical adaptation of the novel and the news that a film was scheduled to be released in 2017 offered further evidence of the work’s enduring impact. And what is no doubt more significant, the book has sold fairly well in Algeria, where it has been greeted with mixed reactions, including a social media campaign launched by an Islamist cleric demanding that Daoud, who is well known in his homeland as a journalist for Le Quotidien d’Oran, be executed for crimes against Islam and the Arabic language.  \nCertainly, the novel’s overwhelmingly favorable reception in the press, guaranteeing a place for Daoud on the international stage as both ","cbCaicqZaWBbmzKw","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaicqZaWBbmzKw","pdf",104044,4,1,12,"English","en",105,"# Reception and international impact\n## France, Britain, and media coverage\n# Key elements of the remake\n## Displacement and re-reading\n## Narrative act as story and history\n# Postcolonial critique and epistemological limits\n## Colonial blinders and discursive inadequacy\n## Power relations, naming, and moral questions","[{\"question\":\"How does Daoud’s Meursault, contre-enquête restructure Camus’s L’Étranger?\",\"answer\":\"It remakes Camus’s novel by shifting perspective to the brother of the unnamed “Arab” murdered by the original protagonist. 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