Summary
Albert Camus: The Plague
The third volume of the Selected Works of Albert Camus, published by Zora, Zagreb in 1976.
The novel is a chronicle that describes a fictitious epidemic of the plague that affected Oran in 194. It is written in the third person, although it is actually written by one of the participants in the event, doctor Bernard Rieux, using the notes of another important character, Jean Tarrou. Along with these two, important characters are the criminal Cottard, the amorous journalist Rambert, the priest Paneloux and Joseph Grand, a clerk who is trying to write a book. From the beginning of the epidemic and the invasion of rats until its retreat, the fates of people trying to cope with the ubiquitous disease and anxiety in the closed city are described. The work is often interpreted as an allegorical representation of resistance to the Nazi occupation.
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