L'Etat and La Peste

Personally, I found La Peste much more interesting than L'Etat de Siege. With La Peste, I felt much more engaged with the characters, particularly Rieux. I think I learnt more about Camus and his philosophy from La Peste. The actions of the characters clearly demonstrated his views on how people do and should act in a state of threat and fear, which I thought was an intriguing use of the idea of the plague, whereas L'Etat never moved beyond a fairly obvious condemnation of tyranny. While the allegory in La Peste was fairly clear, it was even more obvious and at times bordered on the clumsy in L'Etat, although Camus may have been making a political statement by having the plague as such an obvious metaphor for a tyrannical leader.