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515 The Plague by Albert Camus (with Alice Kaplan and Laura Marris) | My Last Book with Alison Strayer

The History of Literature

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Alice in the Face of the Pandemic

Lisa Kogan: I think Camus really captures the psychology of that waiting and kind of the grammar of it. And Alice writes so beautifully about that, how his personal history, which his wife informed that kind of grammar of waiting. She says she's never going to read the novel the same way again. "It's just a tour de force that chapter"

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