![]() ![]() ![]() Time to rejoice as the ugly creatures is dying? Or is it an early warning symptom? They are found dead everywhere - on streets, houses etc. Thousands of rats came out the fissures and let them died on the port city of Oran. When they died on the streets of happy city. An immediate triumph when it was published in 1947, The Plague is in part an allegory of France's suffering under the Nazi occupation, and a timeless story of bravery and determination against the precariousness of human existence. ![]() ![]() Each person responds in their own way to the lethal disease: some resign themselves to fate, some seek blame, and a few, like Dr. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia follow as they are forced into quarantine. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. "Its relevance lashes you across the face." -Stephen Metcalf, The Los Angeles Times * "A redemptive book, one that wills the reader to believe, even in a time of despair." -Roger Lowenstein, The Washington Post A haunting tale of human resilience and hope in the face of unrelieved horror, Albert Camus' iconic novel about an epidemic ravaging the people of a North African coastal town is a classic of twentieth-century literature. ![]()
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