Read The Plague about 10 years ago, found it strangely poetic. One line where a character sees someone in a darkened cafe as a 'shade among shadows' hit me so hard.
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· 3 months ago
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Tom Watson
· 2 years ago
Yeah, that's a brilliant line - among many. He also follows this line from the sea to the rats to the bacillus infection to the wind and the restless population - ending back with the wind and sea. All movement.
Litlove
· 2 years ago
Type your comment here. I'm thrilled to find another fan of The Plague, which is, I think, Camus's greatest work. I agree with you absolutely that the experience of the war altered Existentialism from being a pure phenomenologically based philosophy into an engaged form of literture deeply concerned with ethics. Camus was always a little further down this path than Sartre, although Sartre's post-war lecture was the publicity-stealer for the change. Great review of the book!
Ralph
· 2 years ago
The Plague is Camus at his best. I don't find him a 'blank-slate' at all. Dr Rieux does not need to have any divine rationale for all the innocent deaths, he does not need the shoulder of a priest to cry on because he cares about humanity at the deepest level, with no conditions and no strings attached. He stays in Oran when he could have fled and risks his life to help others because it's the right thing to do. That may sound simplistic, but Camus is, in a subtle way, showing you that mankind is basically good, as opposed to the Judeo-Christian concept of original sin.
Ralph
· 2 years ago
....He stays in Oran when he could have fled and risks his life to help others because it's the right thing to do. That may sound simplistic, but Camus is, in a subtle way, showing you that mankind is basically good, as opposed to the Judeo-Christian concept of original sin.
Anthony Steyning
· 2 years ago
On strict literary merit The Plague is a significant be it somewhat somber work. (Even gloomy Nietzsche recognized the importance of strains of humor in an otherwise serious opus). Camus wrote The Plague while bedridden with tuberculosis in an Alpine sanatorium while all hell had broken loose in Europe of the early forties, and could not have fathomed the horrific outcome of what was taking place given his isolation and the early going of the war. When The Plague was published after Hitler's defeat it received sudden acclaim for the wrong reason, namely that the novel was one huge metaphor with fascism equated with his deadly pest. I am a great admirer of Camus but not one either subscribing to this theory. The Plague is an Algerian based drama and stands on its own magnificent legs, with no ties to the Axis whatsoever I fear. All this as a point of background and curiosity.
Theophanis
· 1 year ago
Interesting...
BW
· 1 year ago
One can only imagine how much more Camus's influence would have flourished had he not died in that damn accident. We all have our plagues, yet Camus reminds us of that eternal summer.
marc
· 1 year ago
the stranger is as important and difficult, just in a different way! in any case either would be wasted on someone like bush.
rieux is hot. actually it wasn't the child's death that stayed with me, it was the camaraderie.
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· 3 months ago
Camus will never be forgotten, he will always remain on the people who knew him. Thanks for sharing such interesting post
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· 3 months ago
This award winning French philosopher has bequeathed us with lots of poetic, reality biting novels which takes us to whole new level of depth. The value of his works are timeless and hopefully the next generation will get to know them too.
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· 3 months ago
The hopeless, tortured death struggle of a man not only happens in movies and novels but very much happens in reality as well. But sadly, some authorities turn a blind eye on them which leads to injustice and ultimately for history to repeat itself.
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· 2 months ago
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rieux is hot.
actually it wasn't the child's death that stayed with me, it was the camaraderie.
Cheers,:)