#la peste

[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.)

#algeria #france #settler colonialism #albert camus #L’Etranger #La peste #ask

[schumi-nadal]

I was tagged by @acrazybayernfan to share 9 of my favorite books: I'm so sorry, i didn't see the tag till today *sigh* thank you for the tag 🩵 (et je pense relire La Quête du Saint-Graal, petit moment de nostalgie grâce à toi haha).

I wanted to add more like The Goblet of Fire or Peter Pan, it was so difficult to choose only 9 of them 😂

Tagging @ofbooksandstardustbook, @luzmyway, @game-set-canet, and whoever wants to do it ☺ (feel free to do it or not💜 )

#tag game #book game #all the light we cannot see #titanic #the center of my world #george mallory #une saison en enfer #arthur rimbaud #la peste #albert camus #the strange case of dr jekyll and mr hyde #robert louis stevenson #emile zola #germinal #andromaque

[lamaracuchaquecuenta]

—¿Quién le enseñó todo esto, Doctor?

La respuesta fue instantánea:

—El sufrimiento.

Albert Camus, La peste

#albert camus #la peste #ansiotextos #frases #citas #pensamientos de una ansiosa #notas #textos #fragmentos #escritos #brollotextos #la maracucha que cuenta

[transparentgentlemenmarker]

Le mal qui est dans le monde vient presque toujours de l'ignorance, et la bonne volonté peut faire autant de dégâts que la méchanceté, si elle n'est pas éclairée. Les hommes sont plutôt bons que mauvais et en vérité ce n'est pas la question. Mais ils ignorent plus ou moins, et c'est ce qu'on appelle vertu ou vice, le vice le plus désespérant étant celui de l'ignorance qui croit tout savoir et qui s'autorise alors à tuer. L'âme du meurtrier est aveugle et il n'y a pas de vraie bonté ni de bel amour sans toute la clairvoyance possible.

La peste 1947 d'Albert Camus.

#albert camus #la peste #texte vie

[orzamara]

illustrations by V. G. Alexeyev from my Soviet (1988) edition of The Stranger / The Plague / The Fall / Stories and Essays by Albert Camus

#albert camus #illustration #book illustration #art #the stranger #the outsider #l’étranger #the plague #la peste #the fall #la chute #camus tag

[catcoffeeenjoyer]

Tagged by @vostok3-ka let’s goo

1. Three non romantic duos

No one said they don’t have to be obvious, first one is Fedka and Kirillov, THEY ARE JUST IMPORTANT TO ME LIKE-

Perhaps more explenation would be well seen - Fedka is a run away convict, who was sold to the army by Stepan Trofimovic long time ago. Since the beggining of his life, he was dehumanised, because he was born as a serf - he was the property of Verkhovenskys, that is all. And even once he comes back to the city N, he is seen by most as a threat, or as lesser than them (here mostly Pyotr comes to mind), with exception of his family. And then he meets Kirillov - a man, whose whole idea revolves around self sacrifice and belief that once someone learns that they are good, they will be good. And while Fedkas mother was somewhere else, due to family death, Fedka stayed at Kirillovs, drinking tea and talking (also reading Apocalypse). That is to say, he stayed with someone who didn't really see him as a threat, and knew full well he was a murder, and yet treated him with kindness. And what happened? Fedka changed. Well, he still commited the murder, but he did change.

Then we got Cottard and Tarrou from the Plauge…

For those not in the loop, I recently reread the Plauge, and this storyline is similar however not exactly - Cottard is a man who keeps running away from the police, and is lonely. Like has no friends, because no one can relate to his constant fear, and he cannot talk to anyone about his fears because what if someone betrays him and out him to the police. Enter Tarrou - a man who is not a fan of police (due to his past, from what I understood), and who somehow finds out about Cottards constant escape. While Cottard is furious at first, soon he finds out that Tarrou is the only person he can trully talk to. He doesn't judge him, nor can he out him to the police. And they become friends. And at the end of the Plauge, once Tarrou is gone (and the Plauge), Cottard goes insane, because not only he might now be wanted again and no one can relate to him now, but also he lost his friend, the one he trusted the most.

The third is rather a comedic duo, more than a great and deep relationship... but you if I have the Plauge... if I have Demons.. then for the great trinity we have to have 1670 - the duo is Bogdan and Jakub

The reason he is only that they bounce of eachother well - and their subplot about exorcisms was funny. It had to be mentioned though, it was funny.

2. A ship that might surprise others:

... I don't think I have one? I'm pretty open about them.

3. Last song:

The age of the understatement by the last shadow puppets

4. Last film:

Niebezpieczni Dżentelmeni 2023 - rewatch for the fourth time

5. Currently reading :

Finishing up "The Text" by Gluhovsky, and then starting Illiad <3

6. Currently watching:

Alternatywy 4

7. Currently consuming:

Air

8. Currently craving:

Break from school

9. Tagged: whoever wants to do it lmao

#dostoevsky demons #alexei nilych kirillov #fedka the convict #la peste #albert camus #cottard #jean tarrou #Their parts are good analisys imo #I may need to write full post just dedicated to them #tag game

[quicksilvergirl28]

Tarrou should have lived so he and Rieux could run off into the sunset together and move into a cottage and adopt a dog and have a small garden and set up a general practice clinic and–

#this is about The Plague #justice for my boy Jean Tarrou who did nothing wrong ever #if Camus had the balls society would be a better place #The Plague #La Peste #Tarrieux

[prosedumonde]

Le mal qui est dans le monde vient presque toujours de l’ignorance, et la bonne volonté peut faire autant de dégâts que la méchanceté, si elle n’est pas éclairée.

Albert Camus, La Peste

#Albert Camus #La Peste #livre #livres #book #books #citation #citations #citation française #citation en français #littérature #littérature française #literature #quote #quotes

[spettriedemoni]

Le Kappa

La gente che mette kappa invece che “mila” per indicare i numeri dovrebbe essere presa a calci in culo.

Imparate a scrivere, porco tutto!

#pessimismo e fastidio #voi e le vostre kappa #ignoranti di merda #la peste #dovete morire male #oggi così #è lunedì

[gotankgo]

La Peste “Black” (1978)

#la peste #audio #music #boston

[murphy-s-grout]

#albert camus #camus #la peste

[iphigeniarising]

#the plague #la peste #albert camus #words words words #iphi.post #litblr #bookblr

[leiturasinsolitas]

A PESTE - Albert Camus

#albert camus #la peste #a peste #leituras insolitas

[batrachois]

𝕡𝕒𝕣𝕥 𝟘

what is a Pulcinella Secret? It's a secret everyone knows. You see, Gatto told Volpe, who told Stella but Stella could never hold her tongue in front of her sister, and her sister told Moretta and she confessed it to la Peste, and of course Corvo and Gabbiano know too, they are thicker than thieves, so La Peste made Usignolo swore she'd tell nobody so she only told her orchestra 'cause they don't really talk with anyone, but one of them told little Topo who hangs out with Cinghialotto and Orso so now they know, so then Lepre overheard them talking in the garden and told Tartaruga, who told Capro, who told Lupo, who could never keep a secret from Luna, who of course told Sole, who let Coniglio know, who told Riccio just to brag, and Riccio told Cervo who kept thinking about it for hours and we all know he mumbles while he's deep in thought and that's how Pavone found out, so she told Aquila, who then made Arlecchino swear never to say that Pulcinella was seen digging something up behind the mimose. but you didn't hear it from me.

part 1 (to be linked here soon) in the image: a sticker sheet dedicated to La Peste, a character from the story, it'll be available for preorder soon.

image description: a collection of small illustrations in this order from left to right, top to bottom. a black plague doctor venetian mask, a small bottle with a dead rat swimming in green fluid inside, a seagull, a rococo shoe, a white glove with a turquioise button and the fingers stained with blood, a cameo of an eye, a rococo lamp with intricate golden and green designs and a lit candle inside, an angry and puffed up crow with an egg in its beak. end of description

#pulcinella secret #art #carnival #carnevale #patreon #sticker #sticker sheet #original art #story #original story #original characters #well everyone beside #arlecchino #harlequin #pulcinella #la peste #the plague #image described #preorder

[baul-de-frases]

«La manera más fácil de conocer una ciudad es averiguar cómo se trabaja en ella, cómo se ama y cómo se muere ⟨… Nuestras ciudades, por ejemplo, son enteramente modernas;⟩ por lo tanto no hay porqué especificar la manera en que se ama: los hombres y las mujeres, o bien se devoran rápidamente en eso que llaman “amor”; o se comprometen, y hacen de la fuerza de la costumbre su única verdad. Entre estos dos extremos no hay término medio».*

More.

* Albert Camus (2005), La peste (paráfrasis), Edit. Gallimard, Barcelona. Págs. 11-13.

#frases #citas #notas #more #Albert Camus #La peste

[cinefiloatratti]

«Solo il mare, in fondo alla scacchiera monotona delle case, testimoniava quanto vi é di inquietante e di mai placato nel mondo»

— La peste, Albert Camus

#la peste #albert camus #pensieri