1947The Plague
Albert Camus
When plague breaks out in the Algerian port of Oran, the town is sealed off and its people must reckon, each in their own way, with an absurd and impersonal death. Camus keeps the city real and specific: Dr Rieux's surgery in the ordinary streets, the closed town gates that turn Oran into a prison, the harbour and the sea that are suddenly forbidden, the cathedral where Father Paneloux preaches, and the municipal stadium turned into an isolation camp.
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