The Plague by Albert Camus, Erroll McDonald, Stuart Gilbert
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- ISBN: 0679720219
- Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Pub. Date: January 1975
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Synopsis
A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.
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An epidemic serves a telling symbol for the Nazi occupation of France, and, by extension, for human existence as a whole.
Books of the Century; New York Times review August 1948 - Stephen Spender
The Plague is parable and sermon, and should be considered as such. The Plague stands or falls by its message. The message is not the highest form of creative art, but it may be of such importance for our time that to dismiss it in the name of artistic criticism would be to blaspheme against the human spirit.
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The Plagueby Anonymous
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11/10/2009: Albert Camus' The Plague is a thrilling tale of an Algerian town quarantined by the Plague. Throughout the story we feel for the many different character types who are coping with the isolation in different ways. Waiting out the days till the gates of Oran are reopened the town comes closer to do whatever they can to stay free of the Plague.
An amazing bookby rmishou
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11/18/2008: Camus' classic is a must read. As much great literature does, this book works on several levels. It is a clear allegory about the dangers of fascism. The plague begins to appear with the dramatic increase in dead rats. The dangers are largely ignored until things have worsened and it is too late to stop the calamity. Couple this allegory with astute insight into the psychology of human nature and Camus' work borders on amazing. The town seems to resign themselves to their fate, barely fighting, as if already defeated. This book does not fall back to a typical medical thriller where the source must be found and millions are saved at the last minute. Instead, Camus has people die and react to the indiscriminate nature of the disease, killing young and old, rich and poor. As expected there are those who profit from disaster and those you have the money to buy the slowly disappearing food, but Camus resists the urge to cheapen his book with tricks and fabricated action scenes. This books is an intense, existential study of the human psyche in the face of a natural disaster or, allegorically, a dangerous, oppressive government bent on killing individuality and imagination. Camus leaves the reader with the chilling reminder that the plague can lie dormant for years and return at any time.
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