About This Novel
"The Plague" and "The Stranger" (1942) selected in this book are Camus's most important masterpieces, and both are listed as masterpieces of modern world literature. The background of "The Plague" is a commercial city in the Mediterranean region of North Africa. In the novel, Camus used meticulous writing to describe the loneliness, fear, anxiety, pain, struggle and struggle of people in this isolated city where the plague broke out. "The Outsider" describes the process of a young man named Mossot from the time he buried his mother to the time he was sentenced to death after being imprisoned for causing death in self-defense. The novel describes Mossot's inner world in a calm and monotonous language.
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Official(5)Scraped 4d ago
It is futile to try to dismantle Albert Camus's ideas.
Still, my main recommendation for this book is Rambert. He doesn't have the so-called protagonist's halo, but he just has the characteristics that an ordinary, ordinary person should have. At the moment when the city was closed, he thought of his beloved wife, not the people of Li. With no hope of escaping, what he thought of was trying to take root in Oran and survive, and do his part. When the city gate opened, he lost his original enthusiasm. Isn't this the characteristic of us ordinary people? When you want to do something, you are held back by another thing that you have to do. When you finish the thing that is holding you back and want to go back to complete the thing you originally wanted to accomplish, you find that you no longer have the slightest interest in it. I still think Rambert is a pitiful man who does not belong to Oran, but is forced to stay, not because of kindness, but for the responsibility in his heart. He does not believe in heroism, but he is willing to live and die for what he loves, which is beyond our reach. Finally, I would like to give a reminder to people who have experienced this epidemic. Finally, this epidemic is almost over, so don't eat game anymore. You guys, let's have some snacks.
Today's blind review of Rambert
I believe everyone has an impression of Rambert, the journalist in the book. He was very curious about everything about Oran. After Oran was locked down, I always felt that he was the one who suffered the most. He had a lover who was waiting to meet him in Paris, and he wanted to do everything possible. He tried every means to escape. He said, "I don't believe in heroism. I know it's not difficult, and I know it's about killing people. What interests me is living for what you love and dying for what you love." Rambert chose to stay. Facing disaster is not personal suffering, but collective suffering. He is no longer troubled by being a foreigner. He joins a voluntary health and epidemic prevention organization and works hard. Until the moment when the plague ended and the city gates opened, he no longer had the original passion to reunite with his lover. Now, in Wuhan, the second city under lockdown, how many Ramberts are still working hard silently, putting aside their love for their children, just to achieve collective success!
Dark clouds are pressing down on the city, threatening to destroy it. This is a poem that suddenly appeared in my mind. A large number of rats swarmed the streets and died in horrific ways. Increasingly, alarming rumors about a plague spread in the city. Only the doctor himself and a few friends around him knew that this was not alarmist. The doctor tried his best to persuade the government to take action as soon as possible, but the response was only the indifference of those government executives, as if he was overly concerned and had misunderstood the truth of the matter. The government's indifference has gradually become a leader in the indifference of residents who are temporarily safe. The "scattered" death tolls in the newspapers, including a dozen or so, have gradually ceased to arouse people's worries and fears. Everyone's life is still the same as usual, crises are lurking, waiting to satisfy their appetite...
This "Plague" is generally considered a symbolic novel and a philosophical novel. However, the author defines it more specifically in the article: "This documentary novel", he also emphasized that it uses "the writing style of a historian". For fear of misunderstanding, the narrator (who Rieux finally admitted was himself, the author's stand-in) went out of his way to illustrate this point. We might as well quote the original words and let them stand here like a road sign to guide us in reading.
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Official(5)Scraped 4d ago
It is futile to try to dismantle Albert Camus's ideas.
Still, my main recommendation for this book is Rambert. He doesn't have the so-called protagonist's halo, but he just has the characteristics that an ordinary, ordinary person should have. At the moment when the city was closed, he thought of his beloved wife, not the people of Li. With no hope of escaping, what he thought of was trying to take root in Oran and survive, and do his part. When the city gate opened, he lost his original enthusiasm. Isn't this the characteristic of us ordinary people? When you want to do something, you are held back by another thing that you have to do. When you finish the thing that is holding you back and want to go back to complete the thing you originally wanted to accomplish, you find that you no longer have the slightest interest in it. I still think Rambert is a pitiful man who does not belong to Oran, but is forced to stay, not because of kindness, but for the responsibility in his heart. He does not believe in heroism, but he is willing to live and die for what he loves, which is beyond our reach. Finally, I would like to give a reminder to people who have experienced this epidemic. Finally, this epidemic is almost over, so don't eat game anymore. You guys, let's have some snacks.
Today's blind review of Rambert
I believe everyone has an impression of Rambert, the journalist in the book. He was very curious about everything about Oran. After Oran was locked down, I always felt that he was the one who suffered the most. He had a lover who was waiting to meet him in Paris, and he wanted to do everything possible. He tried every means to escape. He said, "I don't believe in heroism. I know it's not difficult, and I know it's about killing people. What interests me is living for what you love and dying for what you love." Rambert chose to stay. Facing disaster is not personal suffering, but collective suffering. He is no longer troubled by being a foreigner. He joins a voluntary health and epidemic prevention organization and works hard. Until the moment when the plague ended and the city gates opened, he no longer had the original passion to reunite with his lover. Now, in Wuhan, the second city under lockdown, how many Ramberts are still working hard silently, putting aside their love for their children, just to achieve collective success!
Dark clouds are pressing down on the city, threatening to destroy it. This is a poem that suddenly appeared in my mind. A large number of rats swarmed the streets and died in horrific ways. Increasingly, alarming rumors about a plague spread in the city. Only the doctor himself and a few friends around him knew that this was not alarmist. The doctor tried his best to persuade the government to take action as soon as possible, but the response was only the indifference of those government executives, as if he was overly concerned and had misunderstood the truth of the matter. The government's indifference has gradually become a leader in the indifference of residents who are temporarily safe. The "scattered" death tolls in the newspapers, including a dozen or so, have gradually ceased to arouse people's worries and fears. Everyone's life is still the same as usual, crises are lurking, waiting to satisfy their appetite...
This "Plague" is generally considered a symbolic novel and a philosophical novel. However, the author defines it more specifically in the article: "This documentary novel", he also emphasized that it uses "the writing style of a historian". For fear of misunderstanding, the narrator (who Rieux finally admitted was himself, the author's stand-in) went out of his way to illustrate this point. We might as well quote the original words and let them stand here like a road sign to guide us in reading.
