Round 8: Tossup 3

In a novel by this author, a man on death row rants that a chaplain is “living life like a dead man” before (10[1])attacking him. A retelling of one of this author’s novels by Kamel Daoud names a character Musa. In another novel by this author, a character’s death is labeled a “doubtful case” after he gives a despairing sermon on the death of Othon’s son. Father Paneloux (-5[1])(“pah-nuh-LOO”) appears (10[1])in a novel (10[1])by this author, (10[1])which opens with the death of thousands of rats in Oran. This author of The Plague (10[1])created (10[1])a (10[1])character who shows no emotion at his mother’s funeral in a novel in which he is arrested for (10[1])shooting an Arab. For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Meursault (“mur-SOH”) in The Stranger. ■END■ (10[1])

ANSWER: Albert Camus (“kah-MOO”) (The Daoud novel is The Meursault Investigation.)
<Editors, European Literature> | Packet H
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