This Week In Fiction Analysis

In the article, This Week in Fiction: Kamel Daoud, the interviewer, Deborah Treisman, asks the author (Kamel Daoud) a few questions about his novel—The Meursault Investigation. In the opening of this article, Treisman asks Daoud if his novel was written to give the exact accounts of what really happened to his brother Musa and Meursault. Daoud explains that he wanted to find his, “own path through Camas,” that he merely wanted to examine Albert Camus’ work a bit more, which could help him figure out who he (Daoud) is and how he fits into the world. Treisman also asked when Daoud first read The Stranger, how he felt about it, and even asked him how he felt about the way that Harun and his mother handled themselves (the other becoming obsessed with Harun who had to wear his brothers clothing and stay in his mother’s sight and how Harun becomes confused and shocked after
That children often form bonds with their parents, but these bonds could be the cause of pain in their lives—Harun’s pain of losing the bond that he had with his mother as himself, and how he struggles as his mom sees him as Musa. The next set of questions that Treisman asks are, what inspired Daoud to write the novel, does he think that it could be offensive when it comes to Muslims, and if he will write another novel. To the first question, he responded that he is a writer who was able to finally write novel instead of journalism. To the second question, Daoud explained that he does not feel that the novel could be offensive towards Muslims, but it could cause Islamists to take offense because they are against the idea of life and favor death. To the third and final question, he explained that he will always write, no matter the form, because he is a writer and it is his