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Gordon as he takes us inside Camus’ powerful imagination. How should they have given a thought to anything like plague, which rules out any future, cancels journeys, silences the exchange of views? They fancied themselves free, and no one will ever be free so long as there are pestilences.” Camus’ presentation of the plague and the ways his characters confront it will be uncannily familiar to us in the Covid era-absurd, perhaps, but existentially very real. There have been as many plagues as wars in history, yet always plagues and wars take people equally by surprise…. Early on, the narrator says, “Everybody knows that pestilences have a way of recurring in the world, yet somehow we find it hard to believe in ones that crash down on our heads from a blue sky.
Published in 1947, Albert Camus’ classic novel is arguably the most powerful literary treatment of “the plague” of all time.
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