Writer’s Note - This is the first in a three-part series about wineries visited by the author this year in Meursault, France. MEURSAULT, France - A chalky-white brick wall runs along Rue Pierre ...

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 Literature of the Absurd” is a reflection on prominent authors in the Absurdist tradition — Beckett, Camus and beyond — and the ways in which their writings can intertwine with life in sometimes ...

Some ideas are so clever it's a wonder no one has thought of them before. Case in point: Algerian writer Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation, a response to Albert Camus' The Stranger, written ...

Few literary characters have unsettled readers as quietly and persistently as Meursault, the protagonist of 'The Stranger' by Albert Camus. Published in 1942, the novel arrived at a moment when Europe ...