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The Plague
by Albert Camus
"to state simply what we learn in time of pestilence: that there are more things to admire in men than to despise"
Perhaps I'm rather morbid for choosing to read this book in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic, but it seemed highly relevant to our current situation. Albert Camus' The Plague depicts a town called Oran as it is locked down by a deadly pestilence. It was very interesting to see how many parallels one could draw between our current pandemic and the plague of Oran. Everything from rumors about alcohol protecting you from infection to price-gauging to altruism and to love. People have remained the same by nature for all this time, and it speaks to how deeply Camus understood this that his depictions are so accurate. Profound and moving. This novel is expertly written. My one regret is that it is so fixed on the masculine viewpoint. There aren't really any female characters (those that appear are no more than images of mothers and wives etc.).
"That a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart."
Perhaps I'm rather morbid for choosing to read this book in the middle of the Coronavirus pandemic, but it seemed highly relevant to our current situation. Albert Camus' The Plague depicts a town called Oran as it is locked down by a deadly pestilence. It was very interesting to see how many parallels one could draw between our current pandemic and the plague of Oran. Everything from rumors about alcohol protecting you from infection to price-gauging to altruism and to love. People have remained the same by nature for all this time, and it speaks to how deeply Camus understood this that his depictions are so accurate. Profound and moving. This novel is expertly written. My one regret is that it is so fixed on the masculine viewpoint. There aren't really any female characters (those that appear are no more than images of mothers and wives etc.).
"That a loveless world is a dead world, and always there comes an hour when one is weary of prisons, of one's work, and of devotion to duty, and all one craves for is a loved face, the warmth and wonder of a loving heart."