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Albert Camus · 1947
A novel set in the Algerian port city of Oran during an unspecified year when a plague outbreak forces the townspeople to confront mortality, isolation, and the human condition. Camus presents a philosophical meditation on absurdism through the eyes of Dr. Bernard Rieux and other residents trapped by quarantine.
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Collective suffering under plague teaches that human solidarity, not God or heroism, is the only honest response to mortality.
mortality
the child curled himself up and shrank away to the edge of the bed, as if in terror of the flames advancing on him, licking his limbs
PAC-RC-135obviously in time of plague such sentiments can't be taken into account, and all was sacrificed to efficiency
PAC-RC-110faith-and-doubt
who would dare to assert that eternal happiness can compensate for a single moment's human suffering? He who asserted that would not be a true Christian
PAC-RC-141'Don't you believe in God?' On Rambert's admitting he did not, she said again that 'that explained it.'
PAC-RC-129trauma-and-survival
nobody is capable of really thinking about anyone, ever
PAC-RC-153among unremitting waves of fear and agonized revolt, the horror that such things could be, always a great voice had been ringing in the ears of these forlorn, panicked people
PAC-RC-192Illuminates
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