5/29/2023 0 Comments Camus the pest![]() ![]() ![]() Bernard Rieux feeling something soft under his foot while leaving his surgery - it’s a dead rat lying in the middle of the landing. ![]() The story begins on a spring morning with Dr. Seventy-odd years later, the novel seems startlingly real in the context of the global spread of the coronavirus, and the human tragedy that is unfolding across the world. The fable, set in the North African coastal city of Oran in 194-, leads people - doctor, priest, magistrate, journalist, rich, poor, man, woman, insider, outsider - to react individually and collectively in different ways to an epidemic of plague. La Peste (The Plague) was published in 1947, it was read in part as an allegory of France’s plight under Nazi occupation during the Second World War. ![]()
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