![]() Late in 1942, he cautions himself not to include the word in the title. Initially Camus was even wary of the word plague. They also indicate his continuing insistence that his book carry his metaphysical ideas of the absurd. ![]() Nearly all these early Plague ideas reveal Camus' concern for a truthful realism and a rejection of sensationalism. ![]() During these years Camus kept a series of notebooks and many of the jottings in the notebooks suggest the multitude of ideas that Camus considered before his book was finally completed. It is in this spirit of generalities that The Plague has been considered.Ĭamus' chronicle had been conceived as early as 1939, but was not begun until after France was defeated and the Germans moved their occupation troops into the country. To attempt a thorough analysis would be to suggest that the work was not art but contrived artifice. Camus recognized this difficulty and remarked that only broad outlines should be paralleled in allegorical comment. One critic will charge that the work has been diced into irreparable ruins another will dismiss the same essay as superficial and general. Allegorical interpretations are as elusive and as tenuous as their interpreters. Attempts to explain an allegorical work are, at best, rarely satisfactory. ![]()
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