#la-pest

[sinfonia-relativa]

Albert Camus, "La Peste."

[countmothra]

Don’t know if this is too niche for Tumblr dot com, but.

That’s the same guy, idk what to tell you.

[lostinmylittleversailles]

french literature is a genre for itself.

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Doctor Rieux thus resolved to compile this chronicle which you find before you in order not to number among those who keep quiet, in order to bear witness in favor of those who suffer the plague, in order that some memorial would exist of the injustice and the violence which had been inflicted upon them. He wanted quite simply to record what one learns in the midst of the pestilence, namely that there are more things to admire about human beings than to despise. . . He knew what this happy crowd did not know, but what it could have learned from books: the plague baccilus never dies nor disappears for good, that it may rest dormant for dozens of years in furniture, in furnishings, that it waits patiently in bedrooms, cellars, trunks and bookshelves; and that perhaps the day will come when to the misfortune or enlightenment of humanity, the plague will again bestir its rats and send them forth to die in a happy city.

[L]e docteur Rieux décida alors de rédiger le récit qui s’achève ici, pour ne pas être de ceux quise taisent, pour témoigner en faveur de ces pestiférés, pour laisser de moins un souvenir de l’injustice et de la violence qui leur avaient été faites, et pour dire simplement ce qu’on apprend au milieu des fléaux, qu’il y a dans les homes plus de choses à admirer que de choses à mépriser. . . [I]l savait ce que cette foule en joie ignorait, et qu’on peut lire dans les livres, que le bacilli de la peste ne meurt ni disparaît jamais, qu’il peut rester pendant des dizaines d’années endormi dans les meubles et le linge, qu’il attend patiemment dans les chambers, les caves, les malles, les mouchoirs et les paperasses, et que, peut-être, le jour viendrait où, pour le Malheur et l’enseignement des hommes, la peste réveillerait ses rats et les enverrait mourir dans une cité heureuse.

—Albert Camus, La peste, bk v (1947) in Albert Camus Théâtre, Récits et Nouvelles (Pléiade ed. 1967), pp. 1473-74. As Albert Camus reminds us, we delude ourselves by thinking that the baccilus of fascism is gone. It lies dormant to be revived again, as we witnessed on Nov 5

[Robert Scott Horton]

[k-i-l-l-e-r-b-e-e-6-9]

The Plague, 1898 ART by Arnold Böcklin

[coochiequeens]

“My bar has always been an inclusive bar,” she said. “Trans people should be respected and have rights, and lesbian women who are born female should also have a space for themselves.” “If the young woman said: I prefer women, then the trans woman was offended and cried transphobia. But this young woman is not transphobic, it’s just a matter of consent, she doesn’t like penises, since she’s a lesbian!”

A lesbian bar that has operated in Rennes, France for nearly a decade has been forced to close its doors following a disturbing swell of vandalism and death threats by trans activists. Orane Guéneau, the owner and manager of lesbian bar La Part des Anges, was publicly denounced as “transphobic” and accused of “misgendering” by critics.

Speaking with Ouest France, Guéneau said she made the decision to shut down the venue to protect her employees in response to increased aggression, both online and at her storefront. On April 14, four unnamed trans activists spray painted the menacing message “Fuck TERFs,” accompanied by a trans symbol, on the front door of the venue during activities that were aimed at opposing national pension reform.

“I have to close after the attack that we experienced,” Guéneau told Ouest France. “The window was tagged and a pane was broken, it was hyperviolent for employees and customers, and the bar was full.”

A few days before the acts of vandalism were committed, Guéneau made a book critical of trans activism available to her patrons. 

Titled When Girls Become Boys and written by Marie-Jo Bonnet, her detractors considered the act to be representative of her “coming out” as transphobic, and condemned her on social media. 

But the backlash was not limited to vandalism and social media condemnation, Guéneau also started to receive threatening messages scrawled on paper slipped under her door last month, some of which read: “Save a trans, commit suicide,” and “One bullet, one TERF.” 

Guéneau faced further harassment throughout the month of May when a local chapter of the French feminist organization Nous Toutes published a statement calling for their supporters to boycott the bar. 

“In Rennes or elsewhere: no feminism without trans people,” reads the call to action from Nous Toutes 35. “For several years, people from the Queer community have been denouncing attacks against them in a bar in Rennes: La Part des Anges. These recurring assaults are all the more problematic since this bar claims an identity as a lesbian and feminist bar.”

The statement continues: “Therefore, it’s important that this bar finally gets massively denounced. We would also like to call on the various political, activist or cultural organizations to stop organizing with this bar… transphobes have no place in our struggles.”

In response to the statement from Nous Toutes 35, Guéneau announced that she had filed a complaint for defamation, harassment and cyber-harassment.

Yet despite the claims of “transphobia,” Guéneau has said that her venue has always been accepting of people who claim to be transgender. 

“My bar has always been an inclusive bar,” she said. “Trans people should be respected and have rights, and lesbian women who are born female should also have a space for themselves.”

However, tensions have escalated over the past five years as Guéneau defended lesbian patrons who were being harassed by men who self-identified as women and attended the venue seeking sex.

On multiple occasions, Guéneau told Charlie Hebdo, trans-identified males came to the lesbian bar to flirt with same-sex attracted women. 

“If the young woman said: I prefer women, then the trans woman was offended and cried transphobia. But this young woman is not transphobic, it’s just a matter of consent, she doesn’t like penises, since she’s a lesbian!”

Women’s rights campaigner and founder of FemellisteMarguerite Stern shared her support for Guéneau, and questioned the accusations of “misgendering” leveled against her. Stern also placed blame for some of the harassment Guéneau endured in part on Nous Toutes for their public condemnation of the venue.

Nous Toutes, the liberal feminist group spearheading the harassment of the lesbian bar, has previously attacked causes they deemed to be “transphobic.”

In 2022, the group announced it would no longer provide data on domestic femicides due to concerns over the sex-based data being used by “transphobes.”

Nous Toutes had originally been founded to provide public insight into violence against women and girls in France, but launched into a social media war with another anti-femicide campaign group over transgenderism. 

After Féminicides Par Compagnons ou Ex accurately reported that no trans-identified males had been murdered by domestic violence in France in 6 years, Nous Toutes responded by suspending their release of any data related to the murder of women and girls in the nation, claiming that the information was “oppressive” and “otherwise illegal.”

Nous Toutes then convened to determine how to make their femicide data reporting more “inclusive,” floating strategies which included counting general transphobia as femicide.

Violence against women critical of gender ideology is a regular occurrence in France, with multiple instances of women being physically attacked for not accepting the concept that trans-identified males were “female” being recorded over the past two years.

Reduxx previously reported on violence breaking out at French pro-woman events deemed “transphobic,” including on International Women’s Day in 2021 and 2022 when a number of women were left with injuries from rampaging trans activists. 

In April of this year, a symposium intended to raise awareness of the plight of Afghan and Iranian women was abruptly postponed after trans activists threatened to violently ambush the event because of the presence of a gender critical speaker.

By Genevieve Gluck

Genevieve is the Co-Founder of Reduxx, and the outlet's Chief Investigative Journalist with a focused interest in pornography, sexual predators, and fetish subcultures. She is the creator of the podcast Women's Voices, which features news commentary and interviews regarding women's rights.

[willowcrowned]

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[sublecturas]

"La mujer rota", de Simone de Beauvoir y "La peste" de Albert Camus en la #LíneaB

[lalchimiedecupid]

The Plague

Albert Camus

[sissa-arrows]

Only three Arabs appear in The Stranger, none of them are named or speak, and the role of the central one (the brother of an Arab woman who is regularly beaten up by the protagonist’s friend, Raymond, and who seeks to avenge her) is to be shot dead on a sunlit beach by the novel’s anti-hero, Mersault.

It requires little effort for even the casual reader to see that the Arabs are merely the toys or mannequins or wordless puppets which exist solely to provide fodder for the adventure and agonised musings of the central, European figure.

Likewise there are no named Arabs in The Plague. It is a novel entirely about Europeans. The majority of deaths from plague in The Plague must, logically, be the deaths of Arabs, since they made up nine tenths of the population of Algeria and of Oran, the city where the story is set, but there is no sense of this in the novel, no sense, for example, that the Algerians might have had different cultural and religious ceremonies and traditions surrounding their Muslim dead.

In Camus’s two most famous novels, nameless and faceless Arabs have to die in order for Europeans to have fancy philosophical reflections.

Albert Camus’s fictions erase the identity, and even the presence, of colonised native people. Seen from this perspective, far from promoting a universal anything, Camus’s fictions, no matter how troubled and questioning they may appear to be, in actual fact, by virtue of their assumptions and subject matter, continue the racist, colonial project of imperial France. Algeria is the place with no memories, no traces of men. Camus equates the notion of anonymity with Algeria (and therefore with Algerians) but also on a moral scale equates it with a place where human history is insignificant, which allows the negation not only of the past of indigenous people, but also of the recent past of colonialism.

Funny you’re mentioning this because my aunt is getting a college degree and they are making them read The Stranger so she was telling me the exact same thing.

Not only indigenous Algerians are not named, they barely exist in Camus’s books but they are “the Arabs” never the Algerians because Camus was a product of his time which means that he saw settlers like him as the real Algerians indigenous people were just there.

(Part of me think that’s one of the reasons Algerians are so attached to their Algerian-Ness it’s because settlers tried to remove it and steal it from us.)

[pestidunce]

Ragnavaldr

I posted this on the F&H reddit earlier so if you see it on there it's not stolen.

[vagorecuerdo]

"Hoy en día, es normal ver a la gente trabajar desde la mañana hasta la noche y, escoger luego, entre el café, el juego o la plática: una manera de perder el tiempo que les queda por vivir. Sin embargo, hay ciudades donde la gente sospecha que existe otra cosa. Eso no cambia sus vidas, pero, al menos, tienen la sospechas."

~ Albert Camus. (La peste)

[someday-dreamlands]

𝑳𝒂 𝑷𝒆𝒔𝒕𝒆 𝒅𝒆 𝑨𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒔 (𝑴𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒂𝒆𝒍 𝑺𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒓𝒕𝒔, 𝒄. 1652–1654)

[veresghost]

❗️AOT and “The plague” spoilers

Some thoughts on AOT ending and parallels with Camus

Personally, I think that the ending of “Attack on titan” is very good

It’s rooted in a message that the human war is inherent, it is never-ending

Which makes me recall the ending of Albert Camus’ “The plague”: “the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good; …it can lie dormant for years and years… and perhaps the day would come when, for the bane and the enlightening of men, it roused up its rats again and sent them forth to die in a happy city.”

The illness in this book represents war, World War II to be specific. La peste brune, brown plague is a name for nazism

By depicting a limit situation with a risk of death, Camus challenges his characters and make them discover their ground values through dangerous ordeals without any belief in the future

In a similar manner, AOT characters blindly reach to their freedom, not knowing what the future can offer and whether it even exists for them, to eventually come to a horrible realization that the battle will never end

But their main idea is to continue fighting, which is often repeated throughout the show

Similar to the book characters:

“…But your victories will never be lasting; that's all."

Rieux's face darkened.

"Yes, I know that. But it's no reason for giving up the struggle."

[erick-saqui]

El mal que existe en el mundo proviene casi siempre de la ignorancia, y la buena voluntad sin clarividencia puede ocasionar tantos desastres como la maldad.

—Albert Camus, La peste; Editorial "Azteca S.A.", p. 95.