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If you were going to name one Camus novel to illustrate your point, why didn't you choose La Peste (The Plague)? The subject matter is even timely! https://en.
by pmiller2 6y ago
If you were going to name one Camus novel to illustrate your point, why didn't you choose La Peste (The Plague)? The subject matter is even timely!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plague https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plague
- cmrdporcupine 6y agoI've thought a lot about this book this year, though I haven't read it since I was a teen.
- UncleMeat 6y agoThe Plague is Camus' most novel-ish book and least philosophical. There is philosophy there (should a doctor resist an inevitable plague?) but there is also a lot of metaphor (many read it as an allegory for nazi-sympathizing france) and even just classic character development. This is very different from The Stranger, which spends like 1/3 of its words on a philosophical conversation, or something like Myth of Sisyphus, which doesn't even attempt to be a story.