Heinlein’s ‘Sky Lift’,” McGiveron compares Camus’s The Plague and Robert A. In the next essay, “’A Grim-Jawed Angel of Mercy’ or ‘There’s No Question of Heroism in All This’? Crisis and Response in Albert Camus’s The Plague and Robert A.
Mcgiveron respectively. The first, “‘From Thucydides to Simone Weil: Friendship and Heroism in Albert Camus’s The Plague,” compares Camus’s two novels The Stranger and The Plague, especially in how the main protagonist confronts their struggles whether in solitude or seeking out help from others, and how these decisions impact them later on in the story. The following two essays are written by Edwin Wong and Rafeeq O. Evans, “The Earliest American Newspaper Reviews of Albert Camus’s The Plague,” This essay explores early reviews of The Plague in American newspapers and the importance of such reviews once the book was translated into English from French. This section opens with an essay by Maciej Kałuża titled, “Benefitting from Plague in Camus’s The Plague ” followed by a piece by Robert C.
This volume, like all others in the Critical Insights series, is divided into several sections.
As an advocate for personal integrity despite an absence of religious or philosophical meaning, Camus became a spokesman for the generation that had witnessed the Holocaust and other horrors of World War II. On one level a simple tale of the universal, ultimately unwinnable, struggle against death, The Plague also explores individual moral courage, secular and religious, in the face of overwhelming tragedy. Considered a classic of the existentialist movement (though Camus objected to this label), scholars have long engaged with the novel’s absurdist elements.
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