everything about nothing or vice versa
Explore our curated book list 'Everything About Nothing or Vice Versa' featuring Alan Moore's *From Hell*, Camus's *The Plague*, and Rickels's *The Vampire Lectures*—a deep dive into existential fiction, graphic novels, and literary criticism on the void and its opposites.
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The Plague
by Albert Camus
“Its relevance lashes you across the face.” —Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times • “A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair.” —Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post 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. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence.
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From Hell
by Alan Moore
In graphic novel format, offers a fictional investigation into a series of murders in 1888 London carried out by the infamous Jack the Ripper.
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The Vampire Lectures
by Laurence A. Rickels
Rickles, a UC Santa Barbara professor, sifts through mythology of vampirism, from folklore to Marilyn Manson, to explore the profound and unconscious appeal of the undead in an original and intellectual look at vamps.
