Albert Camus - The Plague

[Newest Reality]

There is no more important book to understand our times than Albert Camus's The Plague, a novel about a virus that spreads uncontrollably from animals to humans and ends up destroying half the population of a representative modern town. Camus speaks to us now not because he was a magical seer, but because he correctly sized up human nature. As he wrote: ‘Everyone has inside it himself this plague, because no one in the world, no one, can ever be immune.’

[bobbieinok]

1. This was the first book I was able to read in the original in my 50s college French class

Do I remember correctly that the plague partly stands for the pestilence of the mind and heart that follows Naziism?

[greenjar_01]

2. The Plague was also about fascism

How we watch it happen around us, disbelieving. Until it's too late.

[jalan48]

3. A wonderful writer who wrote about the absurdity of life and died in a car wreck.

[Cattledog]

4. K&R