![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Written during the Second World War, it is regarded as an allegory of the Resistance’s struggle against the occupation of France and, more universally, of how we confront the metaphysical problem of evil. Albert Camus’ world-famous novel questions people’s power to act in the face of disaster. The bacillus remains invincible even if, after nine months, the plague leaves Oran as suddenly as it came. Publisher Gallimard Collection inlibrary printdisabled internetarchivebooks china Digitizing sponsor Internet Archive Contributor Internet Archive Language French. The doctor knows that his fight against the epidemic is futile. Publication date 1947 Topics Plague - Algeria - Fiction., Algeria - Fiction. The disease begins to claim more and more victims, gigantic hospital wards are built, later mass graves. A state of emergency is declared, the city is hermetically sealed off, all links to the outside world are severed. The doctor Bernard Rieux suspects what everyone else thinks is impossible: that it is the plague. "Rieux knew that the plague bacillus never dies or disappears for good and that perhaps the day would come when the plague would rouse up its rats again and send them forth to die in a happy city."Ī strange epidemic has broken out in the Algerian coastal town of Oran. In a version by András Dömötör and Enikő Deés ![]()
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