Steve Kierstead’s Reviews > The Meursault Investigation > Status Update

(SPOILERS, I guess:)

Lots of parallels to Camus. Murder of a random person, time in prison contemplating the sky, quality time with newspaper clippings.

Overlapping perspectives: Was Meursault real or fictional? He was both and neither. Likewise "the Arab" whom Meursault killed, Musa. And the narrator is the brother of the fictional/real victim, and he has carried around the guilt and resentment and responsibility and grief of his brother's death for 50 years, always aware of and ashamed in front of his mother and her grief.

More to come.

Overlapping perspectives: Was Meursault real or fictional? He was both and neither. Likewise "the Arab" whom Meursault killed, the narrator's brother, Musa. And the narrator is the brother of the fictional/real victim, and he has carried around the guilt and resentment and responsibility and grief of his brother's death for 50 years, always aware of and ashamed in front of his mother and her grief.

More to come.

Overlapping perspectives: Was Meursault real or fictional? He was both and neither. Likewise "the Arab" whom Meursault killed. And the narrator is the brother of the fictional/real victim, and he has carried around the guilt and resentment and responsibility and grief of his brother's death for 50 years, always aware of and ashamed in front of his mother and her grief.

More to come.

My son Alex and his buddy Ryan Rambow have got big into Camus over the last few years. Especially Ryan.

I came across an NYRB review (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/2015/...) of The Meursault Investigation, which takes off from Camus' The Stranger. The narrator is the younger brother of "the Arab" killed by Meursault in Camus' original. I'm anxious to see how it develops.