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“The plague” by Albert Camus
I got this book a few weeks ago and I’m having a great time with it! A lot of the situations and issues it places are extremely relatable to me (in many ways) and feel extremely akin to modern times, especially in relation to the never-ending “progress” bullshit we’ve been fed lately.
Maybe my reading of the book is a little too political, but I’m enjoying it a lot so far! Would love to read more works by Camus after this one, good stuff.
Aug 05 · 4 months ago · 👍 stack, wasolili, fab, gemalaya, alice-sur-le-nuage
🐦 wasolili [...] · Aug 05 at 21:25:
I read it several years ago. My memory has faded of the finer details but I remember thinking it was overall pretty good but, at times, a bit monotonous, although in a way that was befitting of the theme.
I have a copy of Exhile and the Kingdom and although I know I read it, I have essentially no memory of any of its short stories beyond thinking "The Plague was much better"
I read it as a teenager and really enjoyed it. I remember how eye-opening it was to realize that events that seem singular and monumental in retrospect, are slow slogs in real time, and life goes on anyway.
"The Stranger" ("L'Étranger" in French) is another classic from Camus.
But i also strongly recommend to read "The Myth of Sisyphus", a philosophical essay on life's absurdity.
— https://philosophybreak.com/articles/absurdity-with-camus/
I loved that book when I read it, sometime last century. I remember realizing then, "these things we consider as 'events' actually build up really slowly and go on for a long time..." I never though I'd get to live through a version of it, but there we are. A very, very, wussy version, with a mortality of maybe double that of the flu, but I guess we are all wussies now.