Chaos prevails when the bubonic plague strikes the algerian coastal city of oran. The novel ultimately suggests that the citizens of oran, and all of us, in fact, live in a constant state of. The story is narrated to us by an odd, nameless narrator strangely obsessed with objectivity, who tends to focus on a man named dr. Cette projection a ete rendue possible grace a une bourse du calq entente. Download for offline reading, highlight, bookmark or take notes while. A haunting tale of human resilience in the face of unrelieved horror, camus novel about a bubonic plague ravaging the people of a north african coastal town is a classic of twentiethcentury literature. Plague fiction psychological fiction epidemics france fiction. Books, images, historic newspapers, maps, archives and more.
Synapses 20171006 le meilleur des mondes 20120306 audionaute 20100226 new arrivals videos picks. The novel is clearly a pulpit from which camus can explore and explain. Yet, the plague means a little more than the outbreak of pestilence that goes down in oran. The group of men gathered around the narrative represent, it feels, all human response to calamity. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, the plague is in part an allegory of frances suffering under the nazi. It asks a number of questions relating to the nature of destiny and the human condition. The novel is about a plague in an city and the citizens being stuck there do to a quarantine. From the title, you know this book is about a plague.
An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, the plague is in part an allegory of frances suffering under the nazi occupation, and a story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. We think the title is pretty selfexplanatory, since the book is about a plague. Also, camus seems to like short, bland, descriptive titles. This particular plague happens in a algerian port town called oran in the 1940s. Browse albert camuss bestselling audiobooks and newest titles.
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