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The Plague

Albert Camus

Start date: March 1, 2015

Finish date: March 31, 2015

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Dec 29, 2014 ☯Emily Ginder rated it really liked it

Shelves: read-in-2015, 20th-century-classics, foreign-fiction

The plague has arrived in Oran, Algeria. As each day passes, the townspeople endure horror after horror. Unable to leave the city, they are separated from loved ones who had left before the quarantine or who have died. Food becomes scarce even though the rich, as always, have enough. Month after month, Oran is separated from the world as some citizens die and the rest wonder when their death will come.

Camus portrays the different stages that people go through in time of crises. First there are c ...more

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May 21, 2020 Nenda rated it it was amazing · review of another edition

Shelves: fiction, philosophy

Riveting, especially if you are reading this nowadays.

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Jul 26, 2012 Joshua rated it liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: french, allegory

This book is an allegory of the Nazi occupation of France during World War Two but is broad enough in its themes to relate to any kind of hardship where people suffer and are separated from loved ones. I could relate to the book because I've been in a flood disaster which was a disruption to daily life. It also reminded me of the plight of refugees in detention centres. In the book the plague goes away but we know that the plague bacteria is dormant all around us and could break out again one da ...more

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