Masterpieces of French Literature by Marilyn S. Severson

By Marilyn S. Severson

Undying French masterpieces akin to Victor Hugo's The Hunchback of Notre-Dame, Flaubert's Madame Bovary, and Camus' The Plague (1947) were the topic of copious literary feedback considering their guides. This quantity used to be built in particular to aid scholars and common readers achieve a deeper realizing of 8 French masterpieces. Lucid but demanding literary research specializes in plot and personality improvement, issues, sort, and biographical and ancient context. This advisor deals a fuller experience of the historic and literary atmosphere within which each one writer labored.

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Rieux that squads of volunteers be formed to fight the plague. Rieux asks if he has thought through the possible consequences of participation, that is, suffering from the plague himself. Tarrou responds by asking the doctor what he thought of Paneloux’s sermon and if he believes in God. Rieux does not, focusing instead on the realization that when there are sick people, they need curing (120). Grand also prepares to take part in the sanitary squads, noting with surprise Rieux’s thanks: “Plague is here and we’ve got to make a stand, that’s obvious” 26 Masterpieces of French Literature (127).

Camus’s journal mentions early in his stay the ever-present sounds of the springs that were Albert Camus, The Plague 21 audible at the stone farmhouse (Lottman 261). He went to Saint-Etienne for his pneumothorax injections every 12 days, traveling usually by foot to the train station in Le Chambon-sur-Lignon and then going on via the small, narrow-gauge train. ” L’Etranger describes the nakedness of man faced with the absurd. La Peste, the deep identity of individual points of view faced with the same absurd.

Rieux does not, focusing instead on the realization that when there are sick people, they need curing (120). Grand also prepares to take part in the sanitary squads, noting with surprise Rieux’s thanks: “Plague is here and we’ve got to make a stand, that’s obvious” 26 Masterpieces of French Literature (127). Rambert, still trying to leave and wanting, above all, to rejoin the woman he loves, now consults Cottard about the possibilities of leaving the city illegally. After his first attempt does not succeed and he learns that Rieux has been separated from his wife by the epidemic, Rambert offers to participate in the squads until he can leave.

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