#the plague camus

[sixty-silver-wishes]

man camus really said “there’s gonna be a whole bunch of conspiracy theories and misinformation as a result of a massive plague” back in the 1940s and he was so real for that

[gawdforthelovers]

reading: The Plague

soooo are Rambert and Rieux gonna fuck or what?

[pansnovidinnia]

idk check out my Jean Tarrou/Bernard Rieux gay ass fanfic 🎀

it was written in Ukrainian first and then translated

hope you enjoy ⭐

[shelleizm]

WHAT CLASSIC YOU SHOULD READ BASED ON YOUR FAVOURITE ABBA SONG

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Photo by n.a.williams

[literarylumin]

...there are more things to admire in men than to despise.

- Albert Camus, The Plague

[retroreverbs]

The Plague by Albert Camus (Penguin Modern Classics, 1978 edition).

[yvehattan]

A happy birthday Albert Camus!

[bookblogblogaboutbooks]

[amicus-noctis]

“The sea: I didn’t lose myself in it; I found myself in it.” — Albert Camus, Notebooks: 1942-1951

Photo via @ivorygate

[halucygeno]

TIL there is a 2021 Japanese manga adaptation of Albert Camus' "The Plague", and the author (Ryota Kurumado) made Rieux look like THIS:

The same mangaka also adapted Camus' other famous book, The Stranger, in 2023.

Reminds me of when Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment" got a (heavily abridged) manga adaptation in 2019 (by Hiromi Iwashita):

Maybe I'm just prejudiced, but I always feel like the "manga artstyle" in these makes for a very goofy combination with the subject matter. There's this incongruity in my head between the seedy, dour tone of the original books and the extremely clean, youthful look that mangaka tend to give their protagonists. (Forgive the overgeneralization - Japanese illustrators are not a monolith, I know, I know!)

Anyway, if anything, it's pretty nifty that these European literary classics are getting this sort of recognition in Japan. I may not personally vibe with the style, but I have to respect the effort; taking a book you like and bringing all of its scenes to life in a visual medium is no small feat.

(Still, I just cannot compute Rieux as this baby-faced teenager. At least the Crime and Punishment adaptation stuck to fairly realistic character proportions...)

[your-favourite-plague]

Summer sales finally let me fulfil my hbomberguy-influenced* dream of playing Pathologic! ...which may be a very bad idea. I've never played games as a kid cause I didn't have pc or laptop, so I'm terrible at it, and basically I'm learning basic controls as I go

People are dying, children are selling bullets, I'm afraid of the end of day 1, but I found the comforting familiarity when I clicked on a trash can and, in honour of Harrier Du Bois, I devoted my life to collecting empty bottles and made this shitpost about it

* I actually never finished his video because I didn't want to hear spoilers, even though I doubted I'd ever play this game. But here we are!

[ianimesh]

The Multiverse of Albert Camus 🔥

[literarylumin]

They knew now that if there is one thing one can always yearn for and sometimes attain, it is human love.

- Albert Camus, The Plague

[amphorographia]

Gonna need more fanfics of classic literature, please. Give me a Victor Frankenstein and Henry Clerval friends-to-lovers. Give me an Avdotya Raskolnikova character study. Give me an angsty follow-up on Dr Bernard Rieux as he lives with what he's seen and carries the weight of Tarrou and his wife's deaths. I am starved for fandom content.

I want to talk about and read about these characters and these stories but my only options are formal scholarship or video essays which, ok fine, but I want more

[vivienna-vivid]

In Camusian philosophy, there are three ways of coping with the Absurd:

Commit suicide

Commit to the bit (bad)

Commit to the bit (good)