La Peste
by Albert Camus · first published 1942
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The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace.
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1. La peste (Albert Camus) - entertaining if you're into French existentialism 2. Linked (Barabasi) - insightful and useful to understand that most phenomenon we see in real life follow a power law and what that…
on “Ask HN: Books you read in 2018?” ↗If you were going to name one Camus novel to illustrate your point, why didn't you choose La Peste (The Plague)? The subject matter is even timely! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Plague
on “2020's Existentialist Turn” ↗…Oct. 2. "You do need a private room with a private bathroom." BTW, to my general knowledge, ER rooms do not have private bathrooms. Anyway, my current research into this is reading Albert Camus' 1947 La Peste (The Plague); inevitable partisanship aside, I'm getting the impression a lot of this is universal when humans are faced with such a dire thing. It's not like we don't have millennia of experience with…
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