/lit/ - Literature

How good is The Plague in /lit/'s opinion?

I'm about halfway through Part II. I'm enjoying it much, much more than I did The Stranger.

It says you have shit taste.

Vintage International is the best publisher of Camus.

>>3503907
Try the Plague, it's a book where you will guess the ending from the beginning of the book, then spend the entire book reading it and thinking "It's not going to happen, no, everything will be fine, it couldn't possibly end that way".

>>3490880
I prefer The Plague, but last time I tried to make a thread which was about The Plague instead of The Stranger, no one replied.
So ;I figured I should start it with reference to the book which more people have read.

Can we discuss The Plague?
Everyone is always talking about The Stranger, and while it's a good book, but The Plague is much better.
I very much enjoyed the way the ending, while not unexpected, was still a shock.
It's almost as if one knew everything which was going to happened, but tried to deny it until they were forced to see it for themselves.
Tarrou's death for example.

I just finished The Plague today.
The ending hit me hard, because you can see it coming from the beginning of the book, but the entire time there you keep telling yourself it's not going to happen.
Tarrou's death was inevitable, yet I found myself unable to look away in hope that it will all be alright.
Cottard's arrest at the very end was just as bad.
I felt actual sadness afterwards.
Bravo Camus.

Hello /lit/,
I've been assigned "The Plague" by Albert Camus. If you've read it, would you be so kind as to summarize its five parts?

In return... something, your choice I guess.

Hey /lit/, what's your favorite ending lines from a novel? Picture related.

"He knew what those jubilant crowds did not know but could have learned from books: that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; that it can lie dormant for years and years in furniture and linen-chests; that it bides its time in bedrooms, cellars, trunks and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and enlightening of men, it would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city."

So what's with /lit/'s hard on for The Stranger?

The Stranger was good and all, but it's even outclassed by Camus' own The Plague.

So how many of you e/lit/es have read any Camus other than The Stranger?