NP. The Plague is not Camus's best.
David Morris
fqmorris at gmail.com
Tue Mar 17 21:50:43 UTC 2020
I've read The Stranger and The Plague. His writing style is very terse,
dry. It makes its dark points, but without much humor. I prefer other
dark writers: Nabokov, Kafka, Flanery O'Conner, Pynchon.
David Morris
On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 12:54 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
wrote:
> Believe it or not, I'm under-read on Camus and could very well be using
> your opinions as the basis for my near future reading choices.
>
> So there's that.
>
> YOPJ
>
> On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 1:53 PM Mark Thibodeau <jerkyleboeuf at gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> > I don't know if I'd say that I CARE, with all that word entails, but I'm
> > always at the very least INTERESTED to hear your opinions on all things
> > literary/artistic/political, MK!
> >
> > Yours,
> > Jerky
> >
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 5:25 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> That is all. Yet, good, good stuff.
> >>
> >> Except that it may be *The Fall* that is and the journals. And a great
> >> essay or three
> >> and *The Strange*r is more than a minor masterpiece but less than a
> major
> >> one. I think.
> >>
> >> I say like I'm somebody and that somebody cares.
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> >
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