Story of a Murder

Revisiting "abroad", one of the most famous texts of Albert Camus, Kamel Daoud invites us to reflect on today's lAlgérie and its paradoxes, those of its common history, suffered more than desired, with France, they became nationalist dune national identity who is struggling to make sense, and those religious presence dune rejected by the author but omnipresent in public life.
Picking the murder scene "free", without apparent cause, which the victim is nameless and history, he rebuilt "the other story," that of larabe killed on the beach, who happens to be his brother, his family embodied by an iconic mother and also that of the people who believes in his struggle and emancipation.
Restoring ignored this story and the way the author extends through an act symmetrically to that of the character of Camus, will be marked by many disappointments, like the murder in his haunting emptiness, was also that of individual and collective expectations including the independence of Algeria would over time guilty.
Only the dune smiling young student Oran who left his family to study in Algiers embodies, for the author, a very slim hope of dune society transformation in which it feels to become increasingly "foreign."
The construction of the text evokes the oral tradition of a character who tells. The narrative alternates a direct style, incisive sentences and dune great poetic beauty.
A tribute to Albert Camus visited movingly.