Meursault

[ mur-soh; French mœr-soh ]

noun

1. a dry, white Burgundy wine produced in the district around Meursault in E France.

Word History and Origins

Origin of Meursault¹

First recorded in 1825–35

Example Sentences

He became a newspaper columnist and won international acclaim in 2015 for his first novel The Meursault Investigation, which was a reworking of The Stranger by Albert Camus.

From BBC

An earlier work The Meursault Investigation won the best first novel award in 2015.

From BBC

Daoud has written two previous novels, one of which - the much-praised Meursault Investigation - was a rewriting of Albert Camus’s The Stranger and was shortlisted for the Goncourt in 2015.

From BBC

Mr. Daoud wrote a novel, “The Meursault Investigation,” that takes Camus’s “The Stranger” — or more precisely, the “majestically nonchalant” murder of an Arab at the heart of it — and turns that Arab into a human being rather than the voiceless, nameless object of a “philosophical crime” by a Frenchman called Meursault.

From New York Times

By inverting the perspective, Mr. Daoud shifts the focus from the absurdity of Meursault’s act in the giddying sunlight to the blindness of the colonial mind-set.

From New York Times