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A brutal parable of the human condition. Reading this book is almost soul draining. Camus uses plain, matter of fact prose in his confrontation of man's absurdness. I'm never sure if I should read Camus as fiction or philosophy (maybe there's no difference). Make sure your in a good mood when you start it, you probably won't be by the time you finish it. I can't physically imagine reading this book again, but I am incredibly glad that I did the first time.
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When large, frothing rats start appearing in the port city of Oran, Algeria, the citizens reluctantly start accepting the fact that they are in the midst of an epidemic, one that is way beyond their control. They are quarantined for weeks with no way out, and people start dying left and right. The main question to arise from all this: What is the meaining of life? The literary existentialism aside, I found the prose on the dry side and the characters a bit wooden. This is a re-read from my stude
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I had to read at school and still I don't understand few things from this book. I have to re-read it.
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