Round 5: 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 him. (10[1])A retelling of one of this author’s novels by Kamel Daoud (10[1])names a character Musa. In another novel (10[2])by this author, (10[1])a character’s death is labeled a “doubtful case” (10[1])after he gives a despairing sermon (10[1])on the death of Othon’s (-5[1])son. Father Paneloux (“pah-nuh-LOO”) appears in a novel by this author, which opens with the death of thousands of rats in Oran. This author (10[1])of The Plague (10[1])created a character who shows no (10[1])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■ (0[1])

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