![]() ![]() ![]() But Camus’ plague was a stand-in for more than fascism. Scholar Brian Farrell explains, “Jean-Paul Sartre and other French thinkers were upset with Camus for comparing Nazism to a nonhuman phenomenon that was unrelated to human evil and therefore out of our control. The work is often analyzed as an allegory of French resistance to the spread of the “virus” of Nazism, though Camus refused to confirm or deny such a reading. He lived in German-run Paris at the Hotel Mercure, working as a manuscript reader as he began penning what would become The Plague. Set in the North African French colony of Oran, the novel chronicles a recrudescence of the bubonic plague and the various ways in which the townspeople respond to the pestilence.Ĭamus most likely begun the novel in 1941, a year or so after France fell to the Nazis in the Second World War. Albert Camus is one of the 20th century’s most esteemed writers, and La Peste, or The Plague(1947), is considered one of his masterpieces. ![]()
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