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 attacking (-5[1])him. A retelling (10[1])of one of this author’s (-5[1])novels (10[2])by Kamel Daoud names a character Musa. In another novel by this (10[1])author, a character’s death is labeled a “doubtful case” after he gives a despairing sermon on the death of Othon’s son. (10[1])Father Paneloux (“pah-nuh-LOO”) appears (10[1])in a novel (10[1])by this author, which opens with the death of thousands of rats in Oran. This author of The Plague created a character who shows no emotion at his mother’s funeral in a novel in which he is arrested for shooting an Arab. (10[1])For 10 points, name this author who wrote about Meursault (“mur-SOH”) in The Stranger. ■END■ (10[1])

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