The Plague – Albert Camus

3 Responses to The Plague – Albert Camus

1. Mr Red says:

   January 24, 2021 at 6:51 pm

   A classic, required reading for the era of Covid-19. Definitely not an allegory, however – the plague doesn’t seem to me to map on very effectively to the German occupation of France, even if that was the intention. It maps onto our present situation rather better. Of all the novels set in the time of plague, however, this is surely the best; unforgettable.

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2. Mr Black says:

   January 26, 2021 at 6:53 pm

   I can barely remember the details of this book, and if I left it any longer it is likely to fade away completely. I feel that this can only be a result of the fact that Camus like Sartre has the rather tedious writing style the can be summarized as ‘I the narrator am cleverer than these other pawns in the game’. We read another ‘plague book’, Blindness, back in 2012 which I can recall vividly so my downer on this book can’t be linked to the subject matter.

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3. Mr Orange says:

   February 1, 2021 at 11:14 pm

   This book has not aged well. Although it has some memorable characters, the story is thin and a number of scenes are unbelievable and unintentionally comic. It may have been an important work at the time but it is not the universal, timeless classic I expected.

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