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Camus the pest5/31/2023 ![]() Nobody knows why the plague erupted nobody knows why it went away. And eventually the plague dies down, goes back into hibernation, and the city is reopened. The death toll rises every man - and they are all men - sucks it up and keeps working stoically. The city is blocked off from the outside world in an effort to contain the epidemic. ![]() Everybody works together to get through the terrible calamity of bubonic plague - evolving later into the far more deadly and contagious pneumonic plague. There are a number of key characters in the story, and their viewpoints are effectively represented, but there's no real conflict. After several striking scenes in the beginning, the book settles down into a glacial pace. But somehow I wasn't able to connect with it. ![]() I know many people who admire this novel, and one member of my family was profoundly moved by it. ![]()
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