For a while, I wasn't very interested in The Plague and it was pretty slow going. Camus isn't a flashy stylist, besides which I was wondering the whole time what I was supposed to make of a town in the 40's struck by plague. He obviously wasn't going for realism, although in a lot of ways, it did re...
I read The Plague with interest but not with awe, which is to say, I enjoyed it immensely without loving it. Camus is methodical and even-tempered and his so-called Absurdist views of the human condition are anything but. A lot of rats in this one though, so be prepared.
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