The Plague

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Albert Camus

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Description: Amazon.com Review The Nobel prize-winning Albert Camus, who died in 1960, could not have known how grimly current his existentialist novel of epidemic and death would remain. Set in Algeria, in northern Africa, The Plague is a powerful study of human life and its meaning in the face of a deadly virus that sweeps dispassionately th ... (more)

Manufacturer : Vintage
Release date : 7 May 1991
ISBN-10 : 0679720219 | ISBN-13: 9780679720218

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"Les curieux événements qui font le sujet de cette chronique se sont produits en 194., à Oran. De l’avis général, ils n’y étaient pas à leur place, sortant un peu de l’ordinaire. À première vue, Oran est, en effet, une ville ordinaire et rien de plus qu’une préfecture française de la côte algérienne."

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"Tämä tuotti alkuun itselleni hieman vaikeuksia. Camuksen melkoisen etäännyttävä tyyli ja kertojan maltillisen rationaalinen suhtautuminen ympärillään tapahtuviin hirveyksiin aiheutti sen, että ruton aiheuttamat kauheudet eivät tahtoneet välittyä kirjan sivuilta sillä voimalla kuten niiden odottaisi. Mutta toisaalta, pidemmälle lukiessa tämän lähestymistavan valitsemiseen löytyy myös oikeasti pätevät syynsä kokonaisuuden kannalta, joten kokemus jäi lopulta vähän kaksijak"