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An interesting and passionate engagement with Albert Camus's L'Étranger that is marred by the same flaw that dogs Camus: unreflecting misogyny. There is, as in Camus, an obsession with the mother but all other women are whores (and they are called whores, not sex workers) or sex objects or background noise. It is rather tedious.
I expected this to be a post-colonial critique and it is but it is also more fraught than that. Daoud admires Camus and is spellbound by Camus's prose; he is disillusion ...more
I expected this to be a post-colonial critique and it is but it is also more fraught than that. Daoud admires Camus and is spellbound by Camus's prose; he is disillusion ...more
The concept of this book seemed intriguing: what was the story of the nameless Algerian killed in Camus' novel The Stranger. Unfortunately, it was flat, repetitive, and crushingly boring, even at only 143 pages. What a disappointment.
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I'm not going to rate this because I found this book to be uneven. I liked the premise. A look at the murder victim's point of view from the The Stranger by Albert Camus. The first part of the book was repetitive. The last third or so of the book was the most interesting because the discussion of Independence and life in Oran, Algeria.
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This was a 3.5 read for me.
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Jun 07, 2015
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