NP. The Plague is not Camus's best.

[Mark Kohut]

As earnest as Alfred Nobel's prescriptions. As humorless as an
life-grieving existentialist who was raised by a deaf mom
and loved the sun, his substitute for humor......yes, I was surprised to
remember a lightly done eccentric or part-comic character
in The Plague. But you can imagine his style matched his theme w that one.
The writer character surely based on him, writes some witty remarks
but you are right, he never laughs.



On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 5:50 PM David Morris <fqmorris at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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