“The plague” by Albert Camus
I got this book a few weeks ago and I’m having a great time with it! A lot of the situations and issues it places are extremely relatable to me (in many ways) and feel extremely akin to modern times, especially in relation to the never-ending “progress” bullshit we’ve been fed lately.
Maybe my reading of the book is a little too political, but I’m enjoying it a lot so far! Would love to read more works by Camus after this one, good stuff.
2024-08-05 · 1 year ago · 👍 stack, wasolili, fab, gemalaya, random-elephant
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🐦 wasolili [...] · 2024-08-05 at 21:25:
I read it several years ago. My memory has faded of the finer details but I remember thinking it was overall pretty good but, at times, a bit monotonous, although in a way that was befitting of the theme.
I have a copy of Exhile and the Kingdom and although I know I read it, I have essentially no memory of any of its short stories beyond thinking "The Plague was much better"
🚀 stack · 2024-08-06 at 01:16:
I read it as a teenager and really enjoyed it. I remember how eye-opening it was to realize that events that seem singular and monumental in retrospect, are slow slogs in real time, and life goes on anyway.
😺 gemalaya · 2024-10-18 at 22:12:
"The Stranger" ("L'Étranger" in French) is another classic from Camus.
But i also strongly recommend to read "The Myth of Sisyphus", a philosophical essay on life's absurdity.
— https://philosophybreak.com/articles/absurdity-with-camus/
🚀 stack · 2024-10-19 at 00:29:
I loved that book when I read it, sometime last century. I remember realizing then, "these things we consider as 'events' actually build up really slowly and go on for a long time..." I never though I'd get to live through a version of it, but there we are. A very, very, wussy version, with a mortality of maybe double that of the flu, but I guess we are all wussies now.
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