France

The Plague

by Albert Camus

Summary

A bubonic plague descends on the Algerian city of Oran, and the townspeople struggle with confinement, fear, and death. Read as an allegory for the Nazi occupation, it is Camus's fullest statement of solidarity in the face of absurdity.

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Albert Camus

French-Algerian novelist, essayist, and philosopher (1913–1960) and Nobel laureate whose work is associated with absurdism. He explored the tension between humanity's desire for meaning and the universe's silence on the matter.

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Published
1947
Author
Albert Camus