Mohammed Dib wrote a trilogy named for this country, which is the setting of a novel that opens with Harun recounting the death of his brother Musa to a curious (*) investigator.
A later-appended note to an essay states that a "happy and realistic" city in this country "has no further need of writers," and is instead awaiting tourists. That essay about a city in this country uses Ariadne's thread as a metaphor and opens, "There are no more deserts. There are no more islands." In this country, a man uses red chalk to write the words, "Come in, I've hanged myself," but is saved by a clerk who likes to say, "Hats off!"  Mohammed Dib wrote a trilogy named for this country, which is the setting of a novel that opens with Harun recounting the death of his brother Musa to a curious (*) investigator. In a novel set here, a theater is evacuated when a performer dies during a performance of Orpheus and Eurydice. The smuggler Cottard kills a dog in a fight with the police in a novel set here that opens with the mysterious deaths of hundreds of rats. For 10 points, name this country, the setting of Kamel Daoud's The Meursault Investigation and Albert Camus' The Plague.
A later-appended note to an essay states that a "happy and realistic" city in this country "has no further need of writers," and is instead awaiting tourists.
Algeria