July Reading Groups – The Outsider
Monday 11th July 2016
Venue
The Bookshop, 9 High Street, Ely, CB7 4LJ
The Bookshop, 9 High Street, Ely, CB7 4LJ
Start Time
7.30pm
7.30pm
The Outsider by Albert Camus and
The Mersault Investigation by Kamel Daoud.
One of the 20th Century’s great cult books, Camus’ The Outsider retains its fascination as a classic study of alienation, examining the context and consequences of solitary anti-hero, Mersault’s meaningless murder of an Arab on an Algerian beach. Seventy years on, Kamel Daoud’s award winning debut, The Mersault Investigation, both complements Camus’ novel and offers a pointed critique of its colonial assumptions.