TOTALLY Bizarre ~ Camus and 2003 ~

[JasonBerry]

First, read this from the BBC:

"UN health officials are helping Algeria to investigate an outbreak of plague in the west of the country which has claimed at least one life. A team from the World Health Organization and other international bodies went to the Oran region after reports of plague emerged last month."

Here is the first sentence of Albert Camus' classic novel The Plague written in 1947:

"The unusual events described in this chronicle occurred in 194- at Oran."

The setting for the Camus book was Oran, Algeria. Today, the BBC is reporting an outbreak of Plague in ---- Oran, Algeria.

Bizarre. BBC Link: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/3056921.stm

Edit to add link...

[Ashes]

1. I have never been The Stranger to this kind of shit

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[JasonBerry]

2. Ahh....cute.....The Stranger was my favorite Camus book as well! N/T

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[JanMichael]

3. Camus is probably my favorite 20th century author!

Perhaps Kundera can challenge but "the Plague" is a true masterpiece with the perfect Existential hero Dr. Rieux.

Fabulous book.

Sort of creepy with the news today too. Not only the BBC story but the metaphor about Fascism.

The BFEE is a Plague...

[JasonBerry]

5. So True

"The BFEE is a Plague..."

You are absolutely right. The facts are bizarre - but the metaphor is on-target as well. Wish we had more Camus to read; so great and died way too soon. Damn car accidents.

[soupkitchen]

4. Ah, the Plague

All I maintain is that on this earth there are pestilences and there are victims, and it's up to us, so far as possible , not to join forces with the pestilences. Albert Camus, The Plague

[JackSwift]

6. Had to read it in high school

It was torture. Worse than The Stranger only because it was longer.