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The Plague concerns an outbreak of bubonic plague in the French-Algerian port city of Oran, sometime in the 1940s. The first-person narrator is unnamed but mostly follows Dr. Bernard Rieux . Rieux notices the sudden appearance of dying rats around town, and soon thousands of rats are coming out into the open to die.
The Plague, novel by Algerian-born French writer Albert Camus, published in 1947 as La Peste. The work is an allegorical account of the determined fight against an epidemic in the town of Oran, Alg., by characters who embody human dignity and fraternity.
Full Book Analysis. Previous. The central irony in The Plague lies in Camus' treatment of "freedom." The citizens of Oran become prisoners of the plague when their city falls under total quarantine, but it is questionable whether they were really "free" before the plague.
The plague is often considered an allegory for war and military occupation, and Camus drew from his own experience to describe the isolation and struggle of the novel. The plague itself is based on several cholera and plague epidemics that swept through Oran during the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
May 7, 1991 · Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Rieux, resist the terror.An immediate triumph when it was published...
Apr 6, 2020 · Sales of Albert Camus’ 1947 novel The Plague ( La Peste) were spiking. Everyone was buying it. Rereading The Plague over these past weeks has been an uncanny experience.
Aug 4, 2023 · By NASRULLAH MAMBROL on August 4, 2023. The Plague was written by Albert Camus (1913–60), one of the most gifted and influential writers and philosophers in the French language of the 20th century. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1957. Camus was born in Mondovi, Algeria.
