Albert Camus' The plague

Religious dimensions in literature -- 7

by Thomas Merton

43 pages

English language

Published July 30, 1968 by Seabury Press.

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(57 reviews)

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SharonC reviewed Albert Camus' The plague by Thomas Merton (Religious dimensions in literature -- 7)

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5 stars

This book shaped so much of my thinking.
How parted lovers really don't think about each other...they put the other person in suspended animation. And not just "weak" relationships....but all relationships.
Should a priest call a doctor and the relationship between faith and medical care.

How important it is to make TIME for friends.

That being disengaged is The Plague.

And now, rereading in 2022, why my memories of COVID are so bland. Because people really can't ponder or react to things so abstract as plague.

ManyRoads reviewed Albert Camus' The plague by Thomas Merton (Religious dimensions in literature -- 7)

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4 stars

Remarkable how prescient this novel is, in terms of Covid and the right-wing blight that is now spreading around the world. It is in fact disturbing, true, and frightening that the conditions of this novel remain....

Sandra reviewed Albert Camus' The plague by Thomas Merton (Religious dimensions in literature -- 7)

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No rating

DNF

Zelanator reviewed Albert Camus' The plague by Thomas Merton (Religious dimensions in literature -- 7)

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5 stars

Fantastic and harrowing. A book for the times.

chrisamaphone reviewed Albert Camus' The plague by Thomas Merton (Religious dimensions in literature -- 7)

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5 stars

Deeply moving and relatable to read during COVID. I found it spiritually nourishing, not in the sense of offering comfort, but in the sense of ringing true to me, confronting uncomfortable truths and articulating their social and emotional implications.

Also, Rieux/Tarrou are lovers in my headcanon.

Pumpkin Pai reviewed Albert Camus' The plague by Thomas Merton (Religious dimensions in literature -- 7)

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5 stars

A fitting end to 2020, Camus captures how our society deals with unavoidable circumstances. Apparently, we will continue to behave the way we do no matter how many lessons are put before us. This was written in 1947. FFS.

Matto reviewed Albert Camus' The plague by Thomas Merton (Religious dimensions in literature -- 7)

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5 stars

A classic page turner that has come into new light by the Corvid-19 epidemic.

Eldaerenth reviewed Albert Camus' The plague by Thomas Merton (Religious dimensions in literature -- 7)

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5 stars

Such a good read. The story describes the situation as an epidemic progresses in a town, from the perspectives of the local doctor, town administation, everyday people and military, and varies between experiences of a few people to those of the town. I've not encountered an epidemic story that gives as much coverage to ground level as it does to the high level before.

You'll likely note I'm writing this a week after a large portion of the world (40% of humanity) has gone into lockdown for the SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) pandemic. Despite the book being widely considered to be an allegory to the French resistance of Nazi occupation and/or a reworking of an actual cholera epidemic in the town of Oran 100 years earlier, I kept seeing references that people should read this book to get insights into what we're currently seeing in social and government spheres in response to …