The Plague
Albert Camus • 1947
Devastation Rating
philosophical literary fiction survival political
Our Take
A city sealed against pestilence, and Camus uses the quarantine to ask what people become when ordinary life is suspended. Dr Rieux does his work without heroism or faith, and Camus makes that plainness the argument — not salvation, not meaning, just the daily effort of refusing to abandon the people next to you.
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