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The Plague

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The Plague

By: Albert Camus
Narrated by: James Jenner
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In the small coastal city of Oran, Algeria, rats begin rising up from the filth, only to die as bloody heaps in the streets. Shortly after, an outbreak of the bubonic plague erupts and envelops the human population. Albert Camus' The Plague is a brilliant and haunting rendering of human perseverance and futility in the face of a relentless terror born of nature.©1947 Librairie Gallimard (P)2006 Recorded Books Classics Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Psychological Inspiring Funny
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Insightful Human Condition • Compelling Character Portrayals • Thought-provoking Allegory • Philosophical Depth
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A character driven chronicle of the plague, with a boring shake of the hand at God.

The Plague Chronicles

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A powerful novel on a plague's petrifying effects on society's psychosis: the pullulating fear and panic, apathy for life, and loss of fundamental sanity.

Psychosis of Fear: Panic, Apathy, Insanity

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pace of author was perfect. my first exposure to A. Camut and looking forward to Myth of S. this was beautiful, heart breaking, and astonishingly similar to my memories of COVID. human nature is predictable. mostly good, but occasionally silly and terrible.

wish I had read during COVID!!

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Nothing needs to be said about Camus’s work. It speaks for itself.

The narrator was great and I’d happily listen to more books he reads.

Outstanding

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1940’s 2020... same story same philosophical question. The similarities with COVID-19 were haunting.

Unexpectedly Modern

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Good performance of a very well done story that could be our own in current times.

Timely

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A mysterious epidemic of Bubonic plague ravishes a mythical French colonial town in North Africa. Challenging everyone who lives inside with the threat of death & a choice of how to live or die. How they deal with it parallels our time with our COVID plague.

kinda a good allegory for our current plague.

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A must read for the current pandemic, this 1947, post-Holocaust text outlines in startling similarity the trauma and reactions to an unexpected outbreak, analyzing the existential underpinnings with respect to modernity's scientific worldview.

Life imitating art?

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The ending is impactful and like most Camus works- existential. Moments and scenes do tend to drag on at times, but the quirky characters that fill the once happy little town make up for it.
I do prefer his shorter novelas. I feel like they hit with a certain umpff that this book lacked at times.
Great Read Nonetheless!

I prefer his smaller works (The Fall &TheStranger)

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The overall story was interesting on the heals of a pandemic but the story was drawn out and a bit boring

Longer than it needed to be

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