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The Plague

Albert Camus

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Jul 22, 2009 Kyle rated it did not like it · review of another edition

First I fell asleep everytime I sat down and read some of this book, but I persevered through only because I refuse to let Albert Camus beat me. So that being said I have no idea what the point of this book was. There was a plague in an Algerian city and there was a doctor who did all he could. Other then that I have no idea what its about. I guess I'm not "smart" enough to understand what Mr. Camus was trying to say, I might have understood if he had just said what he was trying to say, but he ...more

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Nov 03, 2009 Alexander Veee rated it it was amazing

Shelves: books-i-own, read-2010, french-literature, existentialism

"Yes Rieux, it's a wearying business, being plague-stricken. But it's still more wearying to refuse to be it. That's why everybody in the world today looks so tired; everyone is more or less sick of plague. But that is also why some of us, those who want to get the plague out of their systems, feel such desperate weariness, a weariness from which nothing remains to set us free except death." ...more

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