3-1/2 out of 5 stars. Translated from French.I purchased this audiobook because I'm into apocalyptic/dystopian books and thought from the cover that this is what the book would be about. It's slightly like that. There's an outbreak of the bubonic plague in a town in Algeria which ends up being cut o...
The plague has arrived in Oran, Algeria. As each day passes, the townspeople endure horror after horror. Unable to leave the city, they are separated from loved ones who had left before the quarantine or who have died. Food becomes scarce even though the rich, as always, have enough. Month after mon...
Human beings tend to cling to convenient obliviousness – ‘I haven’t seen it, so it can’t really exist!’ – in spite of embarrassing, burgeoning bodies of evidence to the contrary. In order for this comfortable bliss of ignorance to be maintained, it follows that any flagging up of the problem will be...
Albert Camus is a fairly new author to me, and I must begin by saying that I'm not too familiar with his work. Last year I read his The First Man, The Stranger, and American Journals. All of these books were amazing, so when I reached for the highly acclaimed The Plague, I was expecting yet another ...
"The evil that is in the world always comes of ignorance, and good intentions may do as much harm as malevolence, if they lack understanding. On the whole men are more good than bad, that, however, isn't the point. But they are more or less ignorant, and it is this that we call vice or virtue; the m...
Of all those forces that threaten humanity, there are three which can be seen as the most feared: war, natural disasters and contagious disease. In his work The Plague it is the issue of contagious disease that Albert Camus deals with. It is a novel of philosophy as much as fear and horror, for the ...
1913–2013 A hundred years of Albert Camus, a writer. …and to state quite simply what we learn in a time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise. Yes, Nazism influenced the writing of this story, Camus was living through it and resisting it, in his way; but it is no...
I thought this was going to be a darker and much heavier book to read than it is. you can finish it in a few hours. the theme is tragic and it follows the start of the disease to it's very end with much casualties. We follow a few characters that I think can be found in many similar settings and we ...
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