Thread: Literary The Plague by Albert Camus
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Old 07-23-2015, 05:08 PM   #26
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Originally Posted by Bookpossum View Post
I finished The Plague yesterday. The following is the review I have just put up on Goodreads:



On the matter of the peripheral part played by women in the story, I rather suspect that to Camus women were simply sexual objects. He had a reputation as a "handsome and energetic charmer of the opposite sex ... (whose) conquests were legion". (Introduction by David Bellos in the Everyman's Library version I read.)

I doubt that he had women friends, or that he actually liked and respected women, so therefore he would not think them worthy to play a role of any importance in his story.
You're review adds a layer of depth to the novel that makes it an engrossing parable of suffering and brutality. Well Done! 😄
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