Tarrou's world
I believe I had some semblance of a rendezvous with the author through the passage in which Tarrou finally emerges as the one witness who is able to see OR the one who happens to consider those elements of 'reality' which invariably transgress the so claimed realist real of life. And in so doing guides the reader towards the point where the 'real' wedges with the existence's absurdity. This moment would also develop into triggering him to reflect upon things more digressively. You cannot extract away the real and concrete from Camus's 'The Plague'; however, the real is as much unreal (in the sense of the elements usually removed by a limited observation). Tarrou doesnt just sees, but 'pictures', listens, and feels his observations. This necessary philosophic and implicitly artistic stance beckons the reader to situate itself in a more moderate manner to face the twining of the real and the banal, as well as the more absurd questions that the su