- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd; New edition edition (23 Nov 1989)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0140180206
- ISBN-13: 978-0140180206
- Product Dimensions: 19.8 x 12.7 x 1.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 326,391 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The story of the affect of the bubonic plague and the Algerians will to survive.
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Camus is one of the greatest polemicist of this century and combines the tragedy of the plague with the tragedy of France under German occupation this novel details the seperation of Oran and Frances separation from the outside world. Although I am a newcomer to Camus his thoughts and his depth of writing convey the alienation of his first noel the outsider with modern european history. his major success is conveying this theme of alienation toa wider setting of a town at odds with society in comparison with the individual at odds in the outsider. The desolation in the novel is used through a sympathetic narrator who recalls the events of the plague and the madness and absurdity of this calamity with the resulting effects on the towns population as the plague takes its toll on the town. The narrator is also given an important element of abstraction from the plague while dealing with it simultaneously, thus adding to the alienation and general helplessness that runs through the book. A classic in its time and one that will last forever and should not be left to lain dormant.
One day rats are found dying on the streets and in houses in the nondescript town of Oran. Soon they are dying by the dozens and then hundreds. Daily. And so are people. It's an epidemic but the authorities won't call it that. We can't scare the people. Soon the town is quarantined and no one can leave. They think it's going to be over in weeks. Oh, no. How do you cope? Stay in? Go out? Skip work? Go completely bananas? Or get stuck in and do what you can to help? Tough questions.
Camus' book apprehends the mind through the stories and experiences of Oran's residents. What shall we do with our lives? Shall we live docilely or act proactively in the situations we find ourselves in? Love. Tragedy. Hope. Despair. Courage. Self-denial. The Plague is not a beach holiday book but one for existentialist soul-searching.
Camus' book apprehends the mind through the stories and experiences of Oran's residents. What shall we do with our lives? Shall we live docilely or act proactively in the situations we find ourselves in? Love. Tragedy. Hope. Despair. Courage. Self-denial. The Plague is not a beach holiday book but one for existentialist soul-searching.
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