By Albert Camus, Stuart Gilbert
ISBN-10: 0679720219
ISBN-13: 9780679720218
Translated from French to English by means of Stuart Gilbert
A haunting story of human resilience within the face of unrelieved horror, Camus' novel a few bubonic plague ravaging the folk of a North African coastal city is a vintage of twentieth-century literature.
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But very soon those who were prisoners of the plague realized the terrible danger to which this would expose their relatives, and sadly resigned themselves to their absence. At the height of the epidemic we saw only one case in which natural emotions overcame the fear of death in a particularly painful form. It was not, as might be expected, the case of two young people, whose passion made them yearn for each other's nearness at whatever cost of pain. The two were old Dr. Castel and his wife, and they had been married for very many years.
And God would see to the rest. T is hard to say if this sermon had any effect on our townsfolk. M. Othon, the magistrate, assured Dr. " But not everyone took so unqualified a view. To some the sermon simply brought home the fact that they had been sentenced, for an unknown crime, to an indeterminate period of punishment. And while a good many people adapted themselves to confinement and carried on their humdrum lives as before, there were others who rebelled and whose one idea now was to break loose from the prison-house.
It might indeed be said that the first effect of this brutal visitation was to compel our townspeople to act as if they had no feelings as individuals. During the first part of the day on which the prohibition to leave the town came into force the Prefect's office was besieged by a crowd of applicants advancing pleas of equal cogency but equally impossible to take into consideration. Indeed, it needed several days for us to realize that we were completely cornered; that words like "special arrangements," "favor," and "priority" had lost all effective meaning.
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