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The plague

by Albert Camus

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1947
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The Plague (La Peste) is a 1947 novel by Albert Camus. It is set in the French Algerian port of Oran, which is shut off from the outside world by quarantine when a plague breaks out. The book follows Dr Bernard Rieux and the people around him, including Tarrou, Rambert and Father Paneloux, as they face the epidemic, and it shows how a town's inhabitants react to a crisis they cannot control.

Camus used the cholera epidemic that struck Oran in 1849 as source material, but placed the story in the 1940s. The narrator is at first anonymous and is named near the end. The novel is read as a philosophical work on the absurd, solidarity and what it means to do one's duty.

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The Myth of Sisyphus, published in 1942, laid out the terms Camus kept for the rest of his life: nothing hands us a meaning, and the honest answer is neither despair nor a leap of faith but carrying on, so the man rolling his stone uphill forever is to be imagined happy. The English collection sets it beside shorter essays in Justin O'Brien's translation.

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First published
1947
Reading time
About 7 hours
Pages
273
Language
English
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