Pestilence
A boring town: Oran. Or a small town that might be the very definition of boredom: no doves, no trees, no parks and rustling leaves. People work, make love and die with the same monotony. There is no drama.
Goenawan Mohamad
March 10, 2020
No pathos. Emotions are minimal. The inhabitants of Oran enjoy ‘simple pleasures’; courting, flirting, going to the cinema, swimming in the sea. Young people can be enthusiastic, but only momentarily. The old people play boules, dine at the club, or gamble: their small sin…
Then, suddenly the plague breaks out—and in Albert Camus’ novel La Peste, translated into English as The Plague (and into Indonesian by Nh Dini
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