The story of The Plague covers approximately one year in the 1940s, starting in spring. Before jumping into matters a nameless narrator describes the city of Oran at the Mediterranean coast in great detail and declares his intention to chronicle the events that he witnessed there. The main character...
"Treeless, glamourless, soulless, the town of Oran ends by seeming restful and, after a while, you go complacently to sleep there." The Plague is set in Oran, a city in Algeria that experiences a breakout of the Bubonic plague, and is soon placed under quarantine. We witness the changes among this c...
We have all heard stories about the plague. Rats running around dying in the streets, people coming down with the flu which later evolves into horrible symptoms like pus-filled buboes all over your body. But we always picture this happening in medieval Europe and definitely not with modern drugs a...
Knjiga koja je znala na trenutke bivati pakleno zamorna, no ipak nevjerojatno briljantna i divna. Lik Granda je predivan i nehotice izaziva melankoliju sa svojom rečenicom o amazonki koju nikako da dovrši. Definitivno ću je jednom opet pročitati, a možda se to "jednom" dogodi upravo večeras.
One morning the streets of the dull, complacent city of Oran are overrun with dead and dying rats. Soon after people begin to show signs of the bubonic plague. The government hesitates to take action, allowing the infection to grip the entire city. Clearly, this is the start of another rollicking ta...
One of those books you can read at multiple levels. On the surface, it's about a town hit by a plague and how the inhabitants deal with this. However, the jacket also describes that it can be read as an allegory for France the Nazis. Not sure I'd have got that without being told up front, but under ...
"Classic." "A perfect achievement." "Masterpiece." Big words with significant meaning. I have a better one. "Eh."The question I have is whether The Plague should be viewed as a work of literature, or something entirely different: philosophy, perhaps? Had I gone into this book expecting a creativ...
A relentlessly grim story sprinkled with equally grim insights of the absurdity of life. I greatly admire this book but I can't say I enjoyed it. Nonetheless there are some incredible passages that had me giddy with amazement. I was especially moved by the evolution of the tragic friendship between ...
It's difficult to review a book like this. There is no denying the brilliance of Camus as a writer and philosopher. He wrote with conviction, eloquence, and passion. His characters arouse sympathy and compassion as they struggle through tragic circumstances in a meaningless world. Herein, though...
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