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The Plague Introduction of the ebook: The Plague
Đánh giá : 4.02 /5 (sao)
Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679720218
A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Afri Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780679720218
A gripping tale of human unrelieved horror, of survival and resilience, and of the ways in which humankind confronts death, The Plague is at once a masterfully crafted novel, eloquently understated and epic in scope, and a parable of ageless moral resonance, profoundly relevant to our times. In Oran, a coastal town in North Africa, the plague begins as a series of portents, unheeded by the people. It gradually becomes an omnipresent reality, obliterating all traces of the past and driving its victims to almost unearthly extremes of suffering, madness, and compassion. …more
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Read The Plague free here. Coronovirus is the name of the 21stC plague. If you don’t know what existentialism is, reading this and relating to the world we have today and how it’s looking for the next week, month and perhaps even longer, will show you. Coronavirus has no favourites, everyone’s in line to catch it, it’s just a wrong-place-at-the-right-time disease. Some will die, and there won’t be any huge funerals and memorial services either. Eventually there may be mass funerals, unattended a Read The Plague free here. Coronovirus is the name of the 21stC plague. If you don’t know what existentialism is, reading this and relating to the world we have today and how it’s looking for the next week, month and perhaps even longer, will show you. Coronavirus has no favourites, everyone’s in line to catch it, it’s just a wrong-place-at-the-right-time disease. Some will die, and there won’t be any huge funerals and memorial services either. Eventually there may be mass funerals, unattended as in the book. Let’s hope it doesn’t get to that.
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This was as much an existentialist tract as it was a book about the descent of a town into plague; the gradient of the decline increasing exponentially until they reach the pit. There it is death and smoke and groans and every bit the imagined hell of those with a religious consciousness.
But the plague has no relationship to religion. The innocent die as much as the guilty. Shady people are sly by night, criminals escape justice, the great and the good sleep peacefully in their beds but the plague is the great equalizer: they all die. This is an atheist world where nothing has rhyme or reason and blaming it on fate or an angry god or questioning why the deities have ignored the supplicants increasing praises, appeals and desperate petitions is futile. Even they see it is pointless and in the end the comforting rituals of death and consignment of the remains have mostly been abandoned. The plague strikes almost all and those whom it leaves, aren’t special in any way.
Pacing is not something I tend to notice in a novel, but I did in this one, it is outstanding. The pacing matches the descent into hell and the recovery into sunlight in a brisk sea air absolutely perfectly. At the end, after all the pain and darkness I felt relieved and refreshed, an unusual feeling for the end of a book.
10 stars, golden ones.
revised Sept 2019 …more
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