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[_bleeckerstreet]

name of book: the plague
author: albert camus
length or # of pages: 287 pages/5 parts.
quick plot summary: (taken from the back) the story takes place in the algerian port of oran, where a ravaging epidemic of bubonic plague - which symbolically suggests other spiritual & political plagues - has thrown the city into a harrowing agony. quarantined

Comments

[darling_etoile]

The book sounds interesting; I'm thinking of checking it out.

Thank god someone is posting in this community- I miss the book reviews.

The Plague

[mpacket]

I like Camus a lot but can appreciate that he can be a little
heavy-handed. Did you like The Stranger? Are you a
fan of existentialism? Did that influence pro or con your reading
of the book? I have also heard it said that Sartre was the
existensialist and Camus was not. Anyways! Thanks for your
thoughts and review.

Reading Plague

[antipoetic]

I am now reading The Plague. It's not going smooth. Some kind of artificiality of the narration restraints me. This book is however typical of existentialism.

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