The Plague
A Literature, France, French Literature book. No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of...
A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes a omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion
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- Pages: 249 pages
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stupidity has a knack of getting its way; as we should see if we were not always so much wrapped up in ourselves Albert Camus, The Plague // They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for, and sometimes attain, it is human love. Albert Camus, The Plague // No doubt our love was still there, but quite simply it was unusable, heavy to carry, inert inside of us, sterile as crime or condemnation. It was no longer anything except a patience with no future and a stubborn wait. Albert Camus, The Plague //
This was as much an existentialist tract as it was a book about the descent of a town into plague, the gradient of the decline increasing exponentially until they reach the pit. There it is death and smoke and groans and every bit the imagined hell of those with a religious consciousness.But the plague has no relationship to religion.... Second reading. This is an essential book. If there's a canon, The Plague belongs in it. A few things interested me this time through. Mostly the narrator's penchant, most effective, for writing about the town's collective mood. This device struck me as an improvement on the Soviet worker novels of the day (1947). The prose is not pumped... Camus um dos autores que mais admiro, muito provavelmente por o ter lido na altura certa, a minha adolescncia, e nessa fase me ter dedicado aos seus escritos existenciais. At hoje continuo a preferir o seu mundo ao de Sartre, nomeadamente pela sua capacidade de distanciamento, simplicidade e inovao narrativa. Por isso no fez muito sentido...
