At 26 pages into the Plague my opinion is Wow!!
The clarity of the the writing, the story and imagery,superbly articulated. (And this in translation!)
Camus' storytelling device as stated very early in is:
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The present narrator has three kinds of data: first, what he saw himself; secondly, the accounts of other eyewitnesses (thanks to the part he played, he was enabled to learn their personal impressions from all those figuring in this chronicle); and, lastly, documents that subsequently came into his hands. He proposes to draw on these records whenever this seems desirable, and to employ them as he thinks best. He also proposes...
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Notes, the version I'm reading is published by Serapis, January 2015. (ISBN:1230000291025)
Now that I'm looking for the translator I realise that I can't find one. Goodreads has a 1948 hard copy book with the same cover (pic below) that I've got, and the translator is Stuart Gilbert.
And, again with the same cover, Knopf published in 1968, but Goodreads doesn't mention a translator.
I wonder if the version that I bought from Kobo, ($3.92 in AU) is legit!