s_e_ 's review for:

The Plague by Albert Camus

5.0

reflective tense medium-paced

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the plague by Albert Camus is a book of contradictions. it is both ahead of its time and before it. the statistics of the news are locked in battle with the individual cases in town, and the meaningless stares into the face of meaning. Camus' typical tone and values battle against some of his less explored ideas, but equally the town, painted in words, white with dust, saturated with sea smells, loud with the howl of the wind... is anything but empty, and the many dimensions of each detailed character and setting bring the atmosphere down from interesting and thoughtful, to unsettling, and provide application and overall significance to his ideas.