Pestilence
Tuesday, 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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