Albert Camus

  • Let’s read Albert Camus’s La Peste (The Plague) together

    Let’s read Albert Camus’s La Peste (The Plague) together

    In view of the COVID-19 information, misinformation and toilet roll hysteria currently gripping the world, over coming weeks I will be channelling my quarantine curiosity into re-reading Albert Camus’s La Peste (The Plague), a story of an epidemic sweeping through the Algerian city of Oran. The novel examines the way in which living in an epidemic

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  • Guest Post: Albert Camus and Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree

    Guest Post: Albert Camus and Shaun Tan’s The Red Tree

    The Red Tree is a picture book, written and illustrated by Australian artist Shaun Tan. It depicts a young, redheaded girl journeying from her bedroom through a series of surreal and what Tan and other critics have termed, ‘absurd’ landscapes. Our protagonist encounters a giant groper suspended above a city street, is submerged in a

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