THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Doreen Carvajal
FRANCE---There are elements of the absurd about the plight of
Kamel Daoud, an Algerian writer whose debut novel reaped glowing international reviews, literary honors and then, suddenly, demands for his public execution. His book, “
Meursault, Counter-Investigation,” is a retelling of Albert Camus’s classic “
The Stranger,” from an Algerian perspective. Camus’s 1942 novel, an exploration of the absurd and the meaningless of life, greatly influenced Mr. Daoud, who is now dealing with his own farcical reality: a Facebook fatwa issued by a Salafist imam from Algeria. [
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