Camus' difficult choice of Rieux as narrator in "The Plague" has attracted little critical attention; yet Rieux, in the use he makes of his friend Tarrou's notebooks for his chronicle, reveals himself to be an old-fashioned, controlling type of historiographer, one who seeks order at all costs and disapproves of telling banal stories — a type of chronicler before the fall?
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