_The Plague_ by Albert Camus
Albert Camus (pronounced ca-moo and not cay-mus as I would like to say it) is an interesting author from Algeria. He wrote _The Stranger_ (published 1946), which I read quite a few years ago after my college friends gave it to me as a gift. I hadn’t heard of him before, but I remember enjoying the book, though I can’t currently recall the story.
When I came across _The Plague_ in one of my searches for books, I thought I would give it a go since it is also considered a classic (I think).
The story follows characters in the town of Oran, which is affected by a strand of the plague. The main characters were men, which was interesting as the women were either mentally unstable (Rieux’s wife) or motherly (Rieux’s motherly) or idealistic (Rambert’s wife and Grand’s main character of his novel). While the men are of varied backgrounds and different personalities, they are forced together by the quarantine of the plague.
Overall, I liked the read and enjoyed the style of Camus’s writing. The portrayal of females is rather typical of the time in which he wrote, so I can forgive that. π
More to come,
-T
