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So Knopf US is publishing a NEW TRANSLATION of Albert Camus’ The Plague in November. The new translation was done by Laura Marris.This is the translation being used in this new reading of the novel: https://publicthings.substack.com/p/interesting-times 
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“I have always been horrified by death sentences and I decided, as an individual at least, that I could not participate in one, even by abstention... That’s all, and it’s a scruple which I imagine would make Brasillach’s friends laugh a lot. And as for Brasillach, if he is pardoned and if an amnesty frees him, as it must, in a year or two, I want this letter to tell him the following, from me: I did not add my signature to yours for his sake, nor for the writer, whom I consider as nothing at all, nor for the person, whom I despise with all the force that is in me... You say that randomness enters into political opinions, and I have no idea about that. But I know that there is no randomness in choosing what dishonours you." ~ Albert Camus, 1945. On how Camus came to oppose the death penalty: https://publicthings.substack.com/p/on-the-influence-of-the-purge-on
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But what does it mean to read a work of fiction whose central metaphor is already happening literally in the world of the reader? It would perhaps be like reading Moby Dick as a guide to whaling. Even with Melville’s encyclopaedic chapters interspersed throughout the narrative, it would not only be a bad idea to take that novel to be some kind of a user’s manual on how to raise a white whale, but it would also entirely miss the point of the novel itself, as a work of fiction.
On slow reading Albert Camus’ The Plague during COVID, climate change, and various political crises <https://publicthings.substack.com/p/interesting-times>
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A new Substack newsletter doing a serial reading of Albert Camus’ The Plague.
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