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Dr. Bernard Rieux. Dr. Bernard Rieux is the narrator of The Plague. He is one of the first people in Oran to urge that stringent sanitation measures be taken to fight the rising epidemic. A staunch humanist and atheist, Dr. Rieux has little patience with the authorities' foot-dragging in response to his call for action.
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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Article History. 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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Apr 6, 2020 · Unable to return to Australia, they were in lockdown. The hospitals were filling up fast, as COVID-19 began to spiral out of control . Sales of Albert Camus’ 1947 novel The Plague ( La Peste ...
Sep 28, 2007 · Such a conviction is at work throughout Camus's second cycle, which includes La Peste (1947), the essay L'Homme révolté (1951) and the plays L'Etat de siège (1948) and Les Justes (1949). In keeping with this cycle's exploration of tragedy and revolt, La Peste chronicles the imprisonment, exile, oppression and suffering experienced by the citizens of Oran when a plague strikes.
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