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Title: Wake Up Call
Review: In this adroitly crafted morality tale, Camus draws the reader to the following conclusion: it may only be by suffering deeply that Man is capable of truly fathoming the gift of life.Painting a wrenching descent into doom, Camus demonstrates through some very clever case studies how Man too often is willing to choose the path of least resistance in daily living. While "the only true ideas are those of the shipwrecked," it often takes Mankind too much time to unite for the common good, the author suggests, making obvious parallels to the Nazi experience that befell Europe only a few years prior to publication of this novel.Camus weaves his magic subtly, methodically thrusting the reader into a vortex of dark passion, on the premise that discomfort at best, or pure adversity at worst, may be a necessary tonic against complacency. In this way, Camus suggests, The Human Race may finally inch toward living up to expectations - God's, or its Own.
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