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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 ...
January 12, 2018 (2018-01-12) – November 15, 2019 (2019-11-15) La peste (The Plague) is a Spanish historical drama television series created by Alberto Rodríguez and Rafael Cobos for Movistar+. It tells a crime story set in the 16th century Seville during an outbreak of the bubonic plague. [ 1 ] The series premiered on 12 January 2018 on ...
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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. This article was most recently revised and updated by Kathleen Kuiper.
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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 ...
THE PLAGUE (La Peste) Novel by Albert Camus, 1947. The longest and most ambitious of his fictions, Albert Camus 's novel The Plague is widely regarded as his masterpiece. It is certainly an artistic tour de force: a vividly realistic account of a harrowing imaginary event. It tells the story of an outbreak of bubonic plague in the Algerian city ...
Apr 6, 2020 · Sales of Albert Camus’ 1947 novel The Plague (La Peste) were spiking. Everyone was buying it. Everyone was buying it. Rereading The Plague over these past weeks has been an uncanny experience.
The Plague is a novel about a plague epidemic in the large Algerian city of Oran. In April, thousands of rats stagger into the open and die. When a mild hysteria grips the population, the newspapers begin clamoring for action. The authorities finally arrange for the daily collection and cremation of the rats.
