#dr rieux

[literarylumin]

'It comes to this,' Tarrou said almost casually; 'what interests me is learning how to become a saint.'

'But you don't believe in God.'

'Exactly! Can one be a saint without God?—that's the problem, in fact the only problem, I'm up against today.'

- Albert Camus, The Plague

[bracketsoffear]

What Moves the Dead (T. Kingfisher) "In this atmospheric retelling of Edgar Allan Poe's classic "The Fall of the House of Usher", Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, so they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruravia.

What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.

Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all."

The Plague (Albert Camus) "A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror."

[winterrhayle]

rank all of the 6 lunar chronicles books! i've asked a few of my friends irl this and ive seen very differing opinions so im curious (and ive seen how much you like ranking so..😂)

LOLLLL yeah ranking is my favourite thing ever ever ever ever ever ever its so fun okay (this is kinda long sorry hahaha) :

winter - this probably isnt a shocker, bc well ^^^ my url😭 literally what does this book NOT have. its 800+ pages, it contains so many perspectives, every single ship, every character dynamic is fully formed, the plot is insane and weaves together so well, the drama, the luna visuals, JACINTER, MISS WINTER HAYLE BLACKBURN.... like......... name a better book.... exactly. winter > everything. this is my go to book to reread and i think that its actually etched into the grooves of my brain. i have 2 copies of this book and they are my prized possessions

fairest - okay this ranking might be controversial, and i hate levana as much as everyone else does(just a disclaimer lol). but I LOVEEEE a character study, specially when said character is a villain. i read fairest after i'd completed all of the main 4 books and it just added so many more layers to the lunar characters (winter, levana, jacin etc), and also introduces us to evret, who is talked about in the main series but as we know he dies before the events of tlc :( but i loved his character and i found this book so interesting, also as a winter girl it was cool to see her parents, and her as a baby / toddler,, and also the og trio winter, jacin and selene / cinder own my WHOLE soul bc they are soooo <33333333333333 this book actually breaks my heart soo bad every time but i still crave rereading it bc its so good

cinder - ahhh when everything was somewhat simple, i like rereading this one to just go back to square one and like. reminisce on how everything begun and look at all of the seeds marissa planted (like that brief mention of winter and the descriptions of jacin aka the blond guard or whatever it was they described him as) . and i just love the kaider of it all of course and idk this one is just so nostalgic to me

scarlet - something about this book just keeps me on edge every time i read it. i literally cannot put it down once i start it and even though i know all of the plot twists and everything now im just constantly hooked. i love the visuals of this book, with the farm in rieux, and futuristic paris, and the fight in the abandoned opera house, soo cool. also i love how well this book in particular ties into little red riding hood because every single time i read the part about michelle actually being ran under glamour, aka the wolf disguised as the grandma like in the og fairytale, i am GAGGED its such a cool way to tie it into the lore of this series. annndddd i feel like i do talk about scarlet on here a lot because of winlet but i do NOT talk about wolf enough so let me just say something: wolf is such an interesting and complex character andi loveeee him and i love how much his personality varies from babygirl to actual killer hahhah

cress - i love this book to death BUTT i feel like some of the desert chapters kinda did drag on a little, especially as ive read this book so many times they're the scenes i tend to skim through (and this was true even BEFORE i became a cresswell hater tbh), but other than that this book is 10/10, i love the farafrah chapters especially, and i loved watching jacin be annoying and also i loved watching the rampion crew start to fill out and become bigger, ALSO this book has that iconic miscommunication scene where thorne and cress reunite with the others but thorne is blind so he didnt know that 'the wolf' cress was talking about was just our wolf (ze'ev) and the chaos of all that and cinder and dr erland and them almost getting arrested and escaping on the rampion / iko was pure chaos ALSOOOO this book had the technical introduction of winter bc you hear her adopting scarlet to save her which is fun so yeah !!! if they took out the cresswell of it all this book would be higher bc theres so much to love (and i mean this literally, this book is SO LONG)

stars above - this feels weird to rank because it isnt one full book, its a set of short stories, and the reason why its down here is because the only ones i consistently go back to are something old something new and the princess and the guard, if those two were full books they would probably be in the number 2 or 3 spot tbh (specially princess and the guard), but the thing is with stars above is that theres just a little too much filler for me,, like thornes chapter is pointless and is not interesting at all, and the little andriod actually is really sweet but i wouldve happily sacrificed that and thornes chapter to get more content with the other short stories, as i feel like they had a lot more to say (i do love cinders cameo in the little andriod tho)

[trevlad-sounds]

Retro Murmeration Rituals

Released 22 March 2023

Wojciech Golczewski-MONO:04

Magic In Threes-It's Good to be the King

CIALYN-Convivium Isle

Gustavo Jobim-At the occult library

PILOTPRIEST-Bonus Track: The Canyons

The British Stereo Collective-Dread

Com Truise-...Of Your Fake Dimension

Stellarays-Pastoral Drama

Rolf Trostel-Bao

The Heartwood Institute-Great Gable

HOME-6

Folclore Impressionista-BONUS: Sound and Vision (7" extra track)

Rhomboid Mane-Obrist

RIEUX-Revok

Joel Vandroogenbroeck & Walt Rockman-Fairy Tale

Richard Demaria-Studio 96

Panamint Manse-LandMarks

The Overload-The Subliminal Man

Rising Sun Systems-Arcane Marine Biology

TALsounds-Soar

Richard Bone-Saiyuji (Dawn) (Daniele Baldelli & Marco Dionigi Remix)

Harvey Sutherland-Jouissance (Adrian Sherwood On-U Sound _Pure Enjoyment_ Dub)

Jake Schrock-Cosmic Ocean

Twilight Sequence-Looking at Lifeforms

Pabellón Sintético-2001

Everyday Dust-Setting Up The Lab

HAWKSMOOR-Porte-Cochère

Maston-Strange Rituals

Vic Mars-Ident A

Correlations-Side On

Mark Barrott-Dr Nimm's Garden of Intrigue And Delight

[rubbleinrainbows]

Dr. B. Rieux i kompilacja momentów...przyjaźni

[tadpolesonalgae]

Reading Update!

The Plague - Camus

‘On the morning of April 16, Dr Rieux emerged from his consulting-room and came across a dead rat in the middle of the landing.’

It starts with the rats. Vomiting blood, they die in their hundreds, then in their thousands. When the rats are all gone, the citizens begin to fall sick. Like the rats, they too die in ever greater numbers.

The authorities quarantine the town. Cut off, the terrified townspeople must face this horror alone. Some design themselves to death or the whims of fate. Others seek someone to blame, or dream of revenge. One is determined to escape.

But a few, like stoic Dr Rieux, stand together to fight the terror. A monstrous evil has entered their lives but they will never surrender.

They will resist the plague.

[toxicant0630]

Dr. Rieux sleeping in the car... and the driver Tarrou🤣 p4 is the original paragraph, so cute……😆 How kind they are……😢

[frankensteincest]

Only the sea, murmurous behind the dingy chequer-board of houses, told of the unrest, of the precariousness of all things in this world. And, gazing in the direction of the bay, Dr Rieux called to mind the plague-fires of which Lucretius tells us, which the Athenians kindled on the sea-shore. The dead were brought there after nightfall, but there was not room enough, and the living fought each other with torches for a space where to lay those who had been dear to them; for they had rather engage in bloody conflicts than abandon their dead to the waves. A picture rose before him of the red glow of the pyres mirrored on a wine-dark, slumbrous sea, battling torches whirling sparks across the darkness, and thick, fetid smoke rising toward the watchful sky. Yes, it was not beyond the bounds of possibility. . . .

ALBERT CAMUS, The Plague tr. Stuart Gilbert

[cveasie]

look, i dont follow "the plague" or "granica" tags for the quotes, i follow them for Zenon hate, for the homosexual tension between dr Rieux and Tarrou, for Elżbieta Biecka appreciation

[axeharvest]

dr rieux and jean tarrou

[cuhe]

To: The Plague - Albert Camus

The gates are shut Life is frozen in this town Where should happiness be put When we all wear an eternal frown As Oran is taken captive By the one they call the plague It passes through overly active As everyone becomes vague The plague is running rife Through throats and lymph alike It goes through like a knife As normal life has gone on strike The bubos and the nodes A pain that no one wants but what everyone here knows As hope actively taunts But through it, we will get! It can't really last forever There's still some hope to have yet That one day we'll be together And as the gates they do open At last, we can get through But there are still some hearts broken Like our poor, Dr Rieux For what is the world without love? It's all we truly hope for The thing that we shall hold above all else, a face to adore But don't forget this plague we've got You can never be certain of your fate Because whilst it can be easily forgot The plague always lies in wait.

[bracketsoffear]

Plague (Michael Grant) "It's been eight months since all the adults disappeared. GONE.

They've survived hunger. They've survived lies. But the stakes keep rising, and the dystopian horror keeps building. Yet despite the simmering unrest left behind by so many battles, power struggles, and angry divides, there is a momentary calm in Perdido Beach.

But enemies in the FAYZ don't just fade away, and in the quiet, deadly things are stirring, mutating, and finding their way free. The Darkness has found its way into the mind of its Nemesis at last and is controlling it through a haze of delirium and confusion. A highly contagious, fatal illness spreads at an alarming rate. Sinister, predatory insects terrorize Perdido Beach. And Sam, Astrid, Diana, and Caine are plagued by a growing doubt that they'll escape - or even survive - life in the FAYZ. With so much turmoil surrounding them, what desperate choices will they make when it comes to saving themselves and those they love?"

The Plague (Albert Camus) "A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature.

The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror."

[leiturasinsolitas]

A PESTE - Albert Camus

Tradução: Valery Rumjanek

Círculo do Livro

Durante a pandemia de Covid-19, houve um aumento significativo nas vendas do clássico livro A peste (1947), do autor franco-argelino, Albert Camus (1913 - 1960), assim como Ensaio sobre a cegueira (1995), de José Saramago (1922 - 2010) e tantas outras distopias, que trouxe à luz reflexões presentes na crônica em relação ao contexto atual global. Afinal, o livro conta sobre uma cidade não identificada na Argélia, que foi acometida por um vírus durante meados da década de 1940. Acompanhamos então a proliferação desse vírus pela cidade à medida em que as personagens reagem a essa contaminação. Essa ameaça invisível se faz presente de diversas maneiras, talvez por isso essa história se mostra contundente ainda nos dias de hoje. 

A história tem como personagem principal o médico, Dr. Bernard Rieux, que busca, com as ferramentas que têm, entender o que está acontecendo. Junto aos demais personagens reflete e questiona sobre os motivos e razões pelas quais o vírus se justificaria. O médico registra o desenvolvimento da doença de maneira clínica, ao passo que identifica também o descaso social, a falta de empatia e a instabilidade política diante da situação.

Essa retomada à história de A peste, agora no século XXI, reforça como uma obra artística, nesse caso a literária, ela se ressignifica e possibilita novas experiências. Na época de sua publicação, havia uma forte analogia ao totalitarismo político alemão proeminente do regime nazista. O próprio autor confirma as semelhanças na crônica com os acontecimentos da época. Porém, décadas depois, novos sentidos emergem justamente pela semelhança direta dessa ameaça invisível.

“É tão válido representar um modo de aprisionamento por outro, quanto representar qualquer coisa que de fato existe por alguma coisa que não existe” Daniel Defoe*

A primeira vez que li o livro foi justamente quando me encontrava contaminado pelo vírus da Covid, em pleno janeiro de 2023. A experiência de leitura ela se intensificou ao passo que consegui, de certa maneira, sentir na pele o que as personagens acamadas também sentiam. Consegui entender o movimento de “redescoberta” da obra, a necessidade, talvez, de entender o que haveria conosco ao fim desse período, algo que se assemelha ao fim do livro? A busca por uma esperança? Talvez.

Essa não foi a minha primeira leitura de Camus, O estrangeiro (1942) foi a minha estreia com o autor, e em ambas as obras puder identificar um refinamento na abordagem dos diferentes temas e a excelência em fazer analogias e associações com as questões sociais, culturais e filosóficas da época, mas que, justamente por esse trato, segue sendo possível seguir experienciando essas histórias de maneira veemente.  

*Epígrafe de A peste.

[thinktosee]

SARIDEWI BINTE DJAMANI AND MOHAMMED AZIZ BIN HUSSAIN – OUR PEOPLE

“But what is true of the ills of this world is also true of the plague. It may serve to make some people great. However, when you see the suffering and pain that it brings, you have to be mad, blind or a coward to resign yourself to the plague.”

 -Dr. Bernard Rieux, in Albert Camus’ 1947 novel, The Plague.

Just this week, and over a span of 48 hours, the Singaporean state executed two individuals convicted of drug-related crimes. Mr. Mohammed Aziz bin Hussain, 56 years old, was hanged on Wednesday for possession or trafficking of 50 grams of heroin, as reported by the Associated Press :

Singapore hangs a man for drug trafficking. It will hang a woman on Friday — the first in 19 years | AP News

On Friday, Madam Saridewi binte Djamani, 45 years old, was executed for possession of 30.72 grams of diamorphine. (2,3)

The executions prompted the United Nations, through its human rights office to declare the following on its website on July 28, 2023 :

“We deplore the multiple executions carried out this week in Kuwait and Singapore and oppose the death penalty under all circumstances…We urge Kuwait and Singapore to immediately establish a moratorium and join the more than 170 States that have so far abolished or established a moratorium either in law or in practice……..The death penalty is inconsistent with the fundamental right to life and the right to be free from torture and other inhuman treatment….. (4)

It should be noted that there are presently 193 member States in the United Nations Organization. Kuwait and Singapore are obviously the minority dissenting members where it relates to the death penalty.

The plague which we are inured to cannot survive if our belief system is as loving and compassionate as we say it is. Our glaring failure or reluctance to link the actions of the state to our humanity or beliefs, perpetuates and solidifies the mortal rule of the plague.

Our heartfelt condolences to the Families of Mr. Mohammed Aziz and Madam Saridewi.

Sources/References

1. Camus, Albert. The Plague, p96. Penguin Books, 2013 (1947). Translated by Robin Buss.

2. Singapore executes first woman in nearly 20 years over 31 grams of heroin | Drugs News | Al Jazeera

3. [2022] SGHC 150 (elitigation.sg)

4. OHCHR condemns executions in Kuwait and Singapore, pushes for global ban | UN News

5. About Us | United Nations

[acknowledgetheabsurd]

Idk doodle I guess; having a mediocre day today but I gotta imagine sisyphus happy right

Photo credit: dsalcoda_

[yokelish]

book recs please

To Sleep in the Ocean of Stars.

The Plague.