Opposition of the stranger

Night after night, Haroun the Algerian, brother of Mousa, one of the most famous victims of world literature, meets a French student preparing a thesis about the Arab victim of Albert Camus's hero, Mersault, the immortal in the novel The Stranger, one of the most taught novels in schools and universities worldwide and the best-selling book for seventy years, and about his afflicted family that kept silent for more than half a century. Haroun narrates to the student his story, their story: the story of the night watch father, who abandoned the mother and children and left to an unknown place, the story of the bereaved mother seeking revenge for her son Mousa's blood, the story of the Algerian revolution and the departure of the French from the country, the story of his revenge for his brother, and other disappointments of the land of a million martyrs. Kamal Daoud presents in his novel this Camus Stranger; opposition is a refined literary genre. It was known to Arabic literature as it was to other literatures. Killing with killing and literature with literature; this is what Kamal Daoud sees, who was able, with a slingshot, to carry Algerian Francophone literature into many languages... including Arabic.