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guerrillaradio
28th July 2002, 12:08
In Oliver Todd´s introduction to Camus´ The Rebel, he suggests that The Plague "suggested...a link between Nazism and communism". Anyone get that?? I don´t see the link at all?? FoH and the other Camus fans please post...
andresG
29th July 2002, 02:49
I just ordered The Plague. I'll give my interpretation of the story after i read it.
perception
31st July 2002, 22:15
I missed that completely. I saw it as a metaphor for how we let sh1t creep up on us becuz we collectively pretend like it's not that bad. How in the beginning they thought it couldn't be plague; then they assumed it'd be over soon, etc. I could see a relation to Nazism, or to Stalinism but not any kind of inherent "link" though.


The Rebel is one of the best books I've ever read though.
guerrillaradio
4th August 2002, 00:49
Quote: from perception on 10:15 pm on July 31, 2002
The Rebel is one of the best books I've ever read though.

I'm currently in the process of reading it...it's fascinating so far.
perception
6th August 2002, 04:14
Quote: from guerrillaradio on 7:49 pm on Aug. 3, 2002

Quote: from perception on 10:15 pm on July 31, 2002
The Rebel is one of the best books I've ever read though.

I'm currently in the process of reading it...it's fascinating so far.

I read it in a Political Theory class, had this bad ass professor who explained really well. He doesn't have a very flattering opinion of revolutions though.
Supermodel
6th August 2002, 15:35
They made me study "La Peste" in high school and they rammed it down our throats that it was about faschism. Dumb thing is they didn't bother to explain faschism or communism.
guerrillaradio
8th August 2002, 15:41
Quote: from Supermodel on 3:35 pm on Aug. 6, 2002
They made me study "La Peste" in high school and they rammed it down our throats that it was about faschism. Dumb thing is they didn't bother to explain faschism or communism.

That sucks. Skools tend to lean towards propaganda every now and then.
andresG
4th September 2002, 00:38
I finished The Plague about two weeks ago.

I think the book is about how people deal with an extreme lack of freedom.

This novel can easily be applied to fascism.
But I do not know how this would link fascism and communism together.



(Edited by andresG at 12:42 am on Sep. 4, 2002)
deadpool 52
5th September 2002, 04:46
I thought that was the understood metaphor, Nazis that is, that the problem was still in the wood work?