The Plague
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Albert Camus
“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror.An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.
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Author
Albert Camus
Pages
320
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published Date
2012-08-08
ISBN
0307827801 9780307827807
Ratings
Google: 4
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"Life amidst the culture of death, renewing and growing despite the oppressing force of absurdity and, metaphorically, fascism. I always think of this book when the rats come out."
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Mitch Ratcliffe
"Camus’s best work in my humble opinion. the stranger starts off slow, but this book starts off with rats dying, then proceeds to get to people becoming afflicted, until everyone is sick. we see the mindsets of our protagonists changing, and molding to the chasm the plague has left and created in the algerian society it inhabits. 11/10. i recommend getting the modernized version if you do not have the best vocabulary knowledge, as it took me a month just because of the antique words with the stuart gilbert version. "
Nelson Hernandez
"Great read for the Covid19 lockdown. Amazing how far we've come and yet many of the situations described are still relevant today. We don't change much."
Darryl Wright
"Eeriely relevant today"
Mark Beach
"I’m re-reading it and gaining a whole new appreciation of it given what we are living through now with COVID-19. Unfortunately it is all too poignant for our current times. "
Jim Neidermyer
"This book is about a plague pandemic in the mid 1900s from the perspective of a doctor. This book captivated me for how in depth every single character was as each had their own philosophical approach to life. Themes in this are also religion, purpose, morality, and death. "
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kailee mae
"Mandatory Covid reading"
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