Round 7: 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 (10[1])names a character Musa. (10[1])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 (10[1])son. Father Paneloux (“pah-nuh-LOO”) appears in a novel by this author, (10[1])which opens with the death of thousands of rats in Oran. This author (10[1])of The Plague created a character (10[2])who shows (10[2])no emotion at his mother’s funeral in a novel in which he is arrested for shooting an Arab. (10[1])For 10 points, (10[1])name this author who wrote about Meursault (“mur-SOH”) in The Stranger. ■END■

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