Plague

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Albert Camus: Plague (2022, Independently Published)

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Published April 30, 2022 by Independently Published.

ISBN:
979-8-8460-7360-9
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The Plague (French: La Peste) is a novel by Albert Camus, published in 1947, that tells the story of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The characters in the book, ranging from doctors to vacationers to fugitives, all help to show the effects the plague has on a populace.

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Rereading this in the middle of a pandemic, this fictional account of a city under quarantine from the plague seems less insightful from the first time.

Some of the differences are due to the scale. In this story, the plague erupts in a single city,which is quarantined, but it still seems to completely miss some of the behaviours we are seeing.

Probably if I reread again in ten more years I can see it as just the allegory it was originally written as, but from here, now it is hard not to think of the ways in which it misses the mark of what seems important to us now.

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