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Camus uses the plague-stricken city of Oran as a metaphor for Occupied France. This novel illustrates the paradox that from evil may come happiness, as well as the idea that only when faced with dire circumstances is humanity capable of finding existential purpose, fraternal affection, and the capacity for courage.
Industry Reviews
"[It marks] the passage from an attitude of solitary revolt to the recognition of a community whose struggles must be shared."
Albert Camus
"What resonates from the novel is how good people respond in terrible times--not by allowing themselves to be paralyzed or blaming the diseased for their affliction but by acting to contain the harm."
Nation - David L. Kirp (05/04/1998)
"[W]ho will not see in it a parable of the condition of all mankind, especially during the recent war?"
McGonigle
"'The Plague' is parable and sermon and should be considered as such. To criticize it by standards which apply to most fiction would be to risk condemning it for moralizing, which is exactly where it is strongest....What we have to judge is the urgency, for us, of M. Camus' morality. It seems to me to be of so much urgency that we would be wrong to ask how much significance people may attach to it tomorrow. There are certain things which need to be said now, without care for the future, and these are said, even with naïveté, in 'The Plague.'"
New York Times Book Review - Stephen Spender (08/01/1948)
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