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The Absurdity of the Aftermath in Daoud's Meursault, contre-enquête
French Forum Pub Date : 2021-04-22
Catherine Talley

Abstract:

This essay interrogates the relationship between Kamel Daoud's novel Meursault, contre-enquête and Albert Camus's L'Étranger through an extended reading of Meursault's narrative form. I argue that the complexity of this relationship only fully emerges when Daoud's novel is read as such—not by tallying the aspects that are critical of Camus and those that are sympathetic, but by considering its narrative conception and unfolding. Attending in particular to the key features of its narrative instance and use of metalepsis, I show how Meursault approaches the project of postcolonial counternarrative differently than canonical remakes, emphasizing the experiences that render 'writing back' impossible. Through an exploration of the aftermath of colonial violence and the forms of irremediable epistemic and ethical uncertainty it produces, Daoud redefines absurdity, from the nihilistic universal articulated by the narrator of L'Étranger, to a historical condition linked to the history and legacies of colonial violence—a definition of absurdity that I argue places him in close relationship to Camus, and particularly the Camus of La Chute.



中文翻译:

达乌德的《默苏尔》中余波的荒诞,contre-enquête

摘要:

本文询问卡梅尔·达德的小说之间的关系的Meursault,驳,民意调查和阿尔贝·加缪的L'Étranger通过扩展阅读默尔索的叙述形式。我认为,这种关系的复杂性只有在这样读达乌德的小说时才会充分显现出来,而不是通过计算对加缪的批评和同情的方面,而是考虑其叙事概念和展开。我特别介绍了其叙事实例的关键特征和成肌功能的使用,向我展示了Meursault如何处理后殖民叙事的项目与规范翻拍的方法不同,强调了使“回写”成为不可能的体验。通过探索殖民暴力的后果及其产生的不可挽回的认识论和伦理不确定性的形式,达乌德重新定义了荒谬,从叙述者朗格L'Étranger)阐述的虚无的普遍性,到与殖民地的历史和遗产相关的历史条件暴力-我认为荒谬的定义使他与加缪(Camus)尤其是拉古特(La Chute)的加缪有着密切的关系。

更新日期:2021-04-22
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