For readers and thinkers on whom nothing is lost
For readers and thinkers on whom nothing is lost
Often, I write here about various stories that I have read, and the great minds that penned them onto the page. However, here I would like to take a wider look at the very requirement that we as humans have for narrative, and our innate and unconscious abilities to both shape them and be shaped by them.
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One would be hard-pressed to find a work of literature more harrowing, and yet more compelling, than Albert Camus’ ‘The Plague’. But in the wake of the unending suffering and devastation caused by the illness, there is also the story of a man who struggles to perfect the first sentence of his novel. A reader may wonder why on earth something so trite could be at all important, against the backdrop of a struggle between life and death— but I believe that this seemingly innocuous dilemma hides exactly the point of Camus’ most ingenuous work.
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