![]() ![]() He struggles with the authorities’ denial when he urges that stringent sanitation measures be taken to fight the rising epidemic. Rieux, is a committed humanist and atheist. The book begins with an unnamed narrator, who reveals his identity at the end of the novel, so as to make the chronicle that follows as objective as possible. This makes his description of the plague and the pain of loneliness exceptionally vivid and heartfelt. Illness, exile, and separation are themes that were present in Camus’ life and his reflections upon them form a vital counterpoint to the allegory. This, of course, is an allusion to Meursault’s murder in The Stranger and is connected with the ravages of the pestilence in The Plague. In fact, in the novel he mentions “a young company employee who had killed an Arab on a beach”. He stresses the powerlessness of the individual to affect his destiny in an indifferent world. ![]() It tells the story of a plague epidemic in the Algerian coastal town of Oran, where thousands of rats are found dead all over the city.Ĭamus’ absurdist philosophy is at the background of the novel. The Plague was published in 1947 and is widely considered as Albert Camus’s most successful novel. ![]()
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