Università Roma Tre

The course will focus on: “The absurd and history”.

It will tackle these topics through the analysis of two novels: Albert Camus, “L’Étranger” (1942) and Kamel Daoud, “Meursault, contre-enquête” (2013).

1) Albert Camus, “L’Étranger”, Paris, Gallimard, coll. Folio, 1942 (or any other paperback French edition)

2) Maurice Blanchot, “Le mythe de Sisyphe”, “Le roman de l’étranger”, in “Faux pas”, Paris, Gallimard, 1943, pp. 65-71 and 248-253 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

3) Jean-Paul Sartre, “Explication de ‘L’Étranger’”, in “Situations I”, Paris, Gallimard, 1947, 14 p. (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

4) Edward W. Said, “Camus et l’expérience impériale française”, in “Culture et impérialisme”, Paris, Fayard, 2000, pp. 11-33 and 248-268 (available from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

5) Kamel Daoud, “Meursault, contre-enquête”, Arles, Actes Sud, 2014 (paperback edition)

6) Veronic Algeri, “Le vertige intertextuel. Une lecture de Kamel Daoud, ‘Meursault, contre-enquête’”, «Revue italienne d’études françaises» (on-line), n° 9, 2019, 12 p. (available also from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

7) Sandra Travers de Faultrier, “D’un procès à l’autre. À propos de ‘Meursault, contre-enquête’ (Kamel Daoud)”, « Les Cahiers de la Justice » (on-line), n° 4, 2015, pp. 657-660 (available also from Moodle platform or copy shop Appunti, via Chiabrera 174)

Camus’s and Daoud’s novels are available from: Feltrinelli Bookstore, Via V. E. Orlando, 78/81 Roma.