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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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States of Plague by Cameron Cameron

The book is written as a series of essays by the two of you in alternating chapters. What topics do you cover? It seems like you're coming at this book and Camus from a bunch of different angles. Yeah. Cameron was a big fan of Moby Dick, and he wrote, in order to write a good allegory, you had to have an intense sense of the real. Right.

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