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Jan P
  • Rated 5 stars

From the back cover - “Albert Camus is a Nobel Prize-winning author perhaps best known for his existential masterpiece, The Stranger. Critics argue, however, that his epic tale The Plague is the more accomplished novel. In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising form the filth only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. And just as mysteriously as it appeared, the rodent problem seems to vanish. Shortly after, however, many local residents experience intense fevers and then...

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katiepego
  • Rated 2 stars

Read it for a bookclub. Took me a long time to get through it, and I kept getting confused as to who all the characters were. Can't say it said to me that much about human behavior. I think other books do it better.

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  • prasanna04

    prasanna04 said:

    I have always felt that Camus used plague as a clever device to analyse human predicament in the setting of that city. The protagonist is a doctor with whom i can relate and he puts human values above all else. quite a moving novel

    posted Friday, February 8 2008
  • Aunt C

    aunt c said:

    Interesting book and the things that they dealt with to stop the disease. It was very interesting.

    posted Saturday, November 3 2007
  • Debraj

    debraj said:

    one of my all time favourites...once had a Camus spell...I have a dusty second hand version which picked up from one of the second hand book stores in Calcutta...

    posted Wednesday, September 5 2007
  • Debraj

    debraj said:

    one of my all time favourites...once had a Camus spell...I have a dusty second hand version which picked up from one of the second hand book stores in Calcutta...

    posted Wednesday, September 5 2007
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