Albert Camus novel The Plague leads surge of pestilence fiction

A plague is spreading. People are dying. Everyone is ordered to quarantine at home as the local doctor works around the clock to save victims. There are acts of heroism and acts of shame; there are those who think only of themselves, and those who are engaged for the greater good. The human condition is absurd and precarious.

EstherHawdon „The only means to fight the plague is honesty.“ Albert Camus, The Plague

I’ve just dug out my French A level copy of La Peste and fascinated by my annotations- done in 1987

Camus was less an anti-fascist than a hand-wringing dissident fascist. His hope on D-Day was the French would rise up against the Americans and Germans at once. He and Marshal Petain, and now his daughter, share an odd fixation on money as an instrument of social control.

hilarybennmp I thought it was relating to the Nazis? You should also follow The Plague' by reading 'The Outsider'. We can all learn a lot more, 'Humility' maybe, from Camus.

Blindness, from literature Nobel prize José Saramago, shows a selfish society in a pandwmic that makes people go blind. That is the most accurate novel to what we are living

hilarybennmp Just finished it......there are rhythms of behaviour and accounts of feelings that remind me of the present moment. The open bars/cafes in the book and the sense of a tangible society connected by suffering is where the experience doesn’t resonate with the alienation of 2020.

hilarybennmp I have been quoting it all along. Remarkable parallels. Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant novel. Read it everybody!

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I prefer Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 'The Last Man' & available free on the Kindle.

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But there are so many. coronavirus Lockdown Books The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Stand by Stephen King Severance by Ling Ma The Passage by Justin Cronin A Boy and his Dog at the End of the World by C. A. Fletcher The Boy on the Bridge: by M. R. Carey

Excellent book. I read it while waiting many hours for a train in Oujda on the Moroccan/Algeria border - perfect setting. Huge station but only had 2-3 trains a day. greatbooks Camus

Great book. I'd also recommend World War Z. It's got zombies, but it's also a really interesting, documentary style take on pandemics.

No shit. I'm reading it right now.

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