The Plague

A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people It gradually becomes a omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion. Best Read eBook The Plague author Albert Camus – kino-fada.fr Ah, death it s always there, isn t it It is a terrible fate, doomed upon us all, that could take place at any time, in millions of different ways The Jews who witnessed the holocaust are aware of this The people of Haiti know this The mother who lost her only child in a car accident is aware of this Most individuals and groups of individuals spend their days fighting the fact of death, lying to themselves, using clever ways to avoid its ever present reality Looking death in its cold, in Ah, death it s always there, isn t it It is a terrible fate, doomed upon us all, that could take place at any time, in millions of different ways The Jews who witnessed the holocaust are aware of this The people of Haiti know this The mother who lost her only child in a car accident is aware of this Most individuals and groups of individuals spend their days fighting the fact of death, lying to themselves, using clever ways to avoid its ever present reality Looking death in its cold, indiscriminating eye, is perhaps the most difficult thing one can do But the result from doing so when taken with time is a clear eyed vision of the world we live in the result of which is an inner strength of which few know But for those that have ...Albert Camus The Plague is a laugh RIOT Just kidding, it is about the bubonic plague, really not very funny at all However, it is a modern masterpiece of allegory, symbolism and imagery The surface story is about plague in the early 1940s visiting the Algerian coastal city of Oran While Camus tells a complete tale of diseas...If you lived in an ordinary community quite unexpectedly facing an existential stress test, what would you do How would you deal with the situation, and which character traits of yours would all of a sudden come to the surface How would you treat your friends, neighbours and fellow citizens What would you do to change the situation These questions have been haunting me ever since I first read La Peste in school, over two...hebergeur dimageherbergeur d image hebergeur dimageherbergeur d image h bergement gratuit heberger une imageH bergeur d images 400 D I read The Plague right after reading Swann s Way Of course it wasn t a deliberate move But as I moved on, I realized that reading of The Plague had rendered something quite remarkable in the way I realized and appreciated both works Both works embody a reality Swann s Way speaks of the reality that is long gone by and one wish to remember and cherish, whereas, The Plague makes oneacutely aware of the bleakness of actual reality when imposed through an epidemic su...Ah, si fuera un temblor de tierra Una buena sacudida y no se habla m s del caso Se cuentan los muertos y los vivos y asunto concluido Mientras que esta porquer a de peste Hasta los que no la tienen parecen llevarla en el coraz n.Muchos coincidir n conmigo de que La Peste es una de las mejores novelas que se han escrito en el siglo XX El nivel de realismo alcanzado por Albert Camus es sorprendente y para ello se vale de muchos recursos, todos ellos efectivos y en ning n caso utilizado coAh, si fuera un temblor ...This was as much an existentialist tract as it was a book about the descent of a town into plague, the gradient of the decline increasing exponentially until they reach the pit There it is death and smoke and groans and every bit the imagined hell of those with a religious consciousness.But the plague has no relationship to religion The innocent die as much as the guilty Shady people are sly by night, criminals escape justice, the great and the good die in their beds, the plague is the great This was as much an existentialist tract as it was a book about the descent of a town into plague, the gradien...Humankind is always been haunted by the idea of oblivion, the mere thought of being forgotten, the inkling of being swiped out of the face of earth, from memory, from hearts of those who were held close, strikes us down like an old rotten sapling, that didn t see the good days of opulence, nor was given the sun enough, so couldn t grow to become a tree Death seems to be a farfetched long talked idea, an unpleasant episode others went through and never happened to us, an equivocal dot of a thoug Humankind is always been haunted by the idea of oblivion, the mere thought of being forgotten, the inkling of being swiped out of the face of earth, from memory, from hearts of those who were held close, strikes us down like an old rotten sapling, that didn t see the good days of opulence, nor was given the sun enough, so couldn t grow to become a tree Death seems to be a farfetched long talked idea, an unpleasant episode others went through and never happened to us, an equivocal dot of a thought swiftly burring under the teemed dirt of brains, and there are times, when death gets undressed of that dirt, arises naked and dances Rhythmically In tandem with you This was the time when it happened Of all Camus novels, none described man s confrontation ...Somehow Camus brings humanism, optimism and the role of love to a depressing story of bubonic plaque in 1940 s Oran, Algeria First all the rats die and then we go from there After much bureaucratic bungling and delays, the city is cut off from the outside world by quarantine A lot of the focus of the story is on those separated by chance from loved ones for several months There is intrigue as some plot to escape the town But mainly a dreary perseverance and indifference takes over many in t Somehow Camus brings humanism, optimism and the role of love to a depressing story of bubonic plaque in 1940 s Oran, Algeria First all the rats die and then we go from there After much bureaucratic bungling and delays, the city is cut off from the outside world by quarantine A lot of the focus of the story is on those separa...Second reading This is an essential book If there s a canon, The Plague belongs in it A few things interested me this time through Mostly the narrator s penchant, most effective, for writing about the town s collective mood This device struck me as an improvement on the Soviet worker novels of the day 1947 The prose is not pumped up to triumphalist proportions There must be a scholar somewhere who s addresses this I ll have to search LC Neither is there an idealized superman worker, Second reading This is an essential book If there s a canon, The Plague belongs in it A few things interested me this time t...

• English
• 10 August 2018
Albert Camus
• Paperback
• 308 pages
• 0679720219
• Albert Camus
• The Plague