The Plague

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Read this the other day. Incredible. An amazing exposition of the many different human emotional responses to crisis. Nearly as good as The Outsider.

[CoexisT]

Just finished it as well. Very good.

[Comrade Marcel]

Has anyone here read the Outsider by Camus and Native son by Richard Wright? Did anyone find them somewhat similiar or was it just me? :)

[SPK]

Originally posted by Comrade [email protected] 18 2006, 10:49 PM
Has anyone here read the Outsider by Camus and Native son by Richard Wright? Did anyone find them somewhat similiar or was it just me? :)
How so?

[Hegemonicretribution]

Thread I started on several issues raised in this thread (http://www.revolutionaryleft.com/index.php?showtopic=50517&hl=plague)

I loved this book, and was thinking about the issues it raised last night. The Outsiider will remain the most direct and pronounced illustration of the absurd for me, but the plague seems to tackle issues from a much more humane perspective, and from the greater defeat of the town's people by the Plague to Grand's battle with his sentence this shows some of Camus' central ideas better than his other works.

The outsider showed me the way, the Plague explained it ;)

If you have read these then the Myth of Sisyphus is a must, if nothing else to fill in some of the gaps. When trying to demonstrate the importance of rebelling against the absurd by choosing life it is necessary to include the controversial issues of death, murder and suicide.

As a litterary piece this again reinforces for me Camus' superiority over the likes of Sartre, the characters to me seem that much more alive. Then again I am basing this on translations only.