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 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 (“pah-nuh-LOO”) appears in a novel by this author, which opens with the death of thousands of rats in Oran. This author of (10[1])The Plague created a character (10[1])who shows (10[1])no emotion at his (10[1])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 (10[1])(“mur-SOH”) in The Stranger. ■END■ (10[1])

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