EWL 120 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Kamel Daoud, Islamism, Sentenced
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Criticizes algerian rule and the influence of islamist parties. A parisian lawyer in amsterdam meets a stranger in a bar (us) and tells his story. Most frequently mentioned individual in the qur"an. When meursault writes about him and erases his identity (metaphorical) Meursault is the author of the stranger, erases camus. At a bar, a regular, in a poor area of oran. He"s angry at meursault for not giving his brother a name. The murderer had the voice, not the victim. Friday"s story starts with the white man, he doesn"t have a name. Abandoned by their father so he becomes the head of the house. Always tell him the murder in different versions. He compares himself to meursault, he also killed a man, sidestory. He never tells mama how he feels. She is too emotionally stunted with grief to care for him. Miriam, sister to moses and aron, the prophetess. Distrust, indifference, afraid of being vulnerable, violent or sself-destructive.
