The Plague

Name: The Plague
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A city sealed off, and the ordinary people who keep working.

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An epidemic isolates the inhabitants of Oran and disrupts ordinary life. Camus follows their responses to suffering, uncertainty, and the demands of solidarity.

A By Albert Camus

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Rats die in the streets of Oran, then people do, and the authorities close the gates. Dr Rieux keeps treating patients; the journalist Rambert tries to get out to the woman he loves; Tarrou organises volunteers. The quarantine lasts most of a year.

Camus wrote it after the occupation of France, and it reads equally as a record of that and as a study of what people actually do when a disaster has no meaning to offer them.

Why Rieux describes his work as common decency rather than heroism, and why Camus insists on that word.
How a city under quarantine loses its sense of time, and what separation does to the people inside.
What Rambert’s change of mind shows about private happiness and shared obligation.
How Paneloux’s two sermons differ, and what the death of a child does to the first one.
Why the narrator’s identity is withheld, and what the choice of voice achieves.
What the closing warning about the plague bacillus means beyond epidemics.

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Author: Albert Camus
Publisher: Lexicon Publishing
Language: English
Format: Paperback

Albert Camus was a French philosopher, author, and journalist known for his contributions to existentialism and absurdism. His notable works include 'The Stranger', 'The Plague', and 'The Myth of Sisyphus'. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1957.

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