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(2012) The originality and complexity of Albert Camus's writings, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.
In his article "La réception critique immédiate de La Peste en 1947," Paul-F. Smets explains that The Plague has suffered critiques from Jean-Paul Sartre, Roland Barthes, or even Georges Bataille. Nowadays, some French intellectuals still have a slighting judgment on the novel.1 For instance, Jean d"Ormesson—member of the French Academy—wrote, "The moralism, the nobility of the ideas, the will to defend a thesis and to make reflections on life, death, the human condition have something laborious and heavy."2 As for the philosopher Alain Finkielkraut, he explains in Le Magazine littéraire in May 2006, "I think this novel is sententious and heavy even if I was touched," and "I have never been convinced by the metaphor."3
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Palud, A. (2012)., The complexity and modernity of the plague, in E. A. Vanborre (ed.), The originality and complexity of Albert Camus's writings, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, pp. 19-33.
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