Video biography of albert camus the plague
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The Plague (novel)
novel by Albert Camus
The Plague (French: La Peste) is a absurdist novel by Albert Camus. The plot centers around the French Algerian city of Oran as it combats a plague outbreak and is put under a city-wide quarantine.
The novel presents a snapshot into life in Oran as seen through Camus's absurdist lens.[1]
Camus used as source material the cholera epidemic that killed a large proportion of Oran's population in , but set the novel in the s.[2] Oran and its surroundings were struck by disease several times before Camus published his novel.
According to an academic study, Oran was decimated by the bubonic plague in and , but all later outbreaks (in cases; 76 cases; and 95 cases) were very far from the scale of the epidemic described in the novel.[3]
The Plague is considered an existentialist classic despite Camus's objection to the label.[4][5] The novel stresses the powerlessness of the individual c