Nerdspecial “My brother’s identify was Musa. He had a reputation. However he’ll stay ‘the Arab’ perpetually.”
In Albert’s Camus’ 1942 The Stranger, a French transport clerk named Meursault shoots an Arab man on the Mediterranean seaside. Algerian creator Kamel Daoud retells Camus’ well-known story from the perspective of the useless man’s household: “My brother’s identify was Musa. He had a reputation. However he’ll stay ‘the Arab’ perpetually.”
One other Look mentioned The Stranger in 2015 – now we’ll learn Daoud’s 2013 retelling of the story, seventy years later. Please be a part of us at 7 P.M. (PST) on Wednesday, November 13, 2024, on the Stanford Humanities Middle when One other Look presents Kamel Daoud’s The Meursault Investigation. James Campbell,writing within the Wall Avenue Journal, calls it “a shrewd critique of a rustic trapped in historical past’s time warp.”
Panelists will embody Stanford Prof. Robert Pogue Harrison, creator, director of One other Look, host of the radio discuss present and podcast sequence Entitled Opinions, and an everyday contributor to the New York Evaluate of Books, and Stanford Prof. Tobias Wolff, one in all America’s main writers and the founding director of One other Look, in addition to a recipient of the Nationwide Medal of Arts.
Stanford lecturer Michaela Hulstyn will spherical out the panel. Her Unselfing: International French Literature on the Limits of Consciousness was printed with the College of Toronto Press in 2022. Her analysis pursuits embody the worldwide French literary world, together with texts by modernist figures in France and Belgium together with writers from Algeria, Rwanda, and Morocco.
Like Camus, Daoud was born in Algeria. He says Camus “cured” him in a time and place the place ideology has turn into preeminent. “His precedence will not be an ideology, however his life, his physique,” based on The Monetary Occasions.
“The issue was I preferred doubt,” Daoud stated.”I used to be deeply cautious of totalitarian explanations. I used to be born in a collectivist interval. The first worth was the group, not the person. And I’m profoundly individualistic.” He now lives underneath a fatwa.
We’re asserting our fall occasion just a little bit early, to permit you time to revisit The Stranger and reacquaint your self to Camus’s timeless basic. You’ll need to maintain it helpful.
Register on the hyperlink beneath:
https://stanford.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_z2rkF4XhS1ay3pIoJvFJAg
Tags: Albert Camus, Kamel Daoud, Michaela Hulstyn, Robert Harrison, Tobias Wolff
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