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  1. Dec 13, 2023 · First published in 1947, La Peste (The Plague) is a classic novel of French literature in which Albert Camus describes the effects an outbreak of the bubonic plague has on an otherwise thoroughly ordinary city in (what was then) French Algeria. Aside from this straightforward summary, however, the novel has been interpreted as an allegorical or metaphoric depiction of life for ordinary French ...

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  3. The State of Siege. The Plague (French: La Peste) is a 1947 absurdist novel by Albert Camus. It tells the story from the point of view of a narrator in the midst of a plague sweeping the French Algerian city of Oran. The narrator remains unknown until the beginning of the last chapter. The novel presents a snapshot into life in Oran as seen ...

  4. Dec 13, 2021 · Camus’ writing has never been stylistically complex. His style is derived from the American scene, from writers such as Hemingway, Dos Passos, and especially James M. Cain. Marris’ translation brings out Camus’ more poetic side. This is apparent at the start of the novel. Marris’ translation hovers over the city of Oran, like a drone ...

  5. Publishers around the world are reporting booming sales of “The Plague” (La Peste), an allegorical tale set in a town at the mercy of an epidemic, written by French Nobel prize writer Albert Camus in 1947. Penguin is rushing through a reprint of its English translation to meet demand, as sales in the last week of February alone were up by 150% on the same period in 2019.

  6. See the multi-authored ‘La peste nera, (1347–1350)’, in Ovidio Capitani (ed.), Morire di peste: testimonianze antiche e Interpretazioni moderne della ‘Peste nera’ del 1348, Bologna, Pàtron, 1995, pp. 99–168, esp. pp. 137–43, reviewing the chroniclers’ stories of the plague-bearing ships. Such stories do not fit cleanly within medical and religious constructions of a universal ...

  7. 195. The Plague is a novel by the French writer Albert Camus, first published in 1947. The novel is set in a city infected with a terrible disease. People's lives are threatened, people come across death face to face. In this difficult time, people are trapped by these circumstances, they have to choose between fighting for life by any means ...

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