La Peste: The Plague (Paperback)

from bokai

When rats begin dying in legions in the small coastal town of Oran, it citizens are disgusted but otherwise uninterested. When cases of bubonic plague begin to crop up in the population, the officials hesitate to overestimate the severity of their predicament. When the plague at last becomes too ...

from bas615

I can certainly understand why this book would turn people off. However, I find this book is the essential piece of literature for our time, and perhaps any other. Camus exposes the essential absurdity of our situation and continues to show the inadequacies of the way many deal with that absurdit...

from jonbrammer

"After all," the doctor repeated, then hesitated again, fixing his eyes on Tarrou, "it's something that a man of your sort can understand most likely, but, since the order of the world is shaped by death, mightn't it be better for God if we refuse to believe in Him and struggle with all our might...

from jsburbidge

I'm not sure that this is the best of Camus' novels - that just might be La Chute - but it is nevertheless a monumental work. There is no structural experimentation here: but it combines highly effective narration over its arc, the presentation in a sober and undramatic way of the approach to lif...

from samantha464

I like this book better than the Stranger. From Camus's description of the town folding in on itself as it basically rots from the inside out, to the lack of sentamentality surrounding an otherwise emotional situation, he manages to bring the existentialist message out of the story in such a subt...